right? so they re trying so hard to look neutral that sometimes they make the wrong call, and i just encourage them to really look at the law and the constitution. i guess by republicans she s talking about republican-appointed supreme court justices. but most legal experts believe that the supreme court will weigh in on this insurrection, 14th amendment issue because different courts around the country have ruled differently on this. some courts have said donald trump can be on the ballot, colorado obviously saying he cannot. this is a classic case where the supreme court needs to step in and tell the country what the law is. the implications for the presidential election will be profound. ken dilanian, thank you for that. i want to bring in former u.s. attorney harry litman. let me pick up there after what elena ha baa had to say. three trump appointees,
nominees, they haven t universally ruled in his favor. the effort to shield his taxes. how do you think the justices are likely to handle this request? i think, chris, they re going to be really concerned with a uniform solution. yes, colorado s in front of them, but trump also makes the point maine is coming and there are 17 other states that are considering some version of this. i think they re going to be very averse to the possibility that some states have them on the ballot and others don t, and that means they re going to look to find a solution that covers not just colorado but every state out there and the different reasons they could rule to keep trump off the ballot, and there are not that many that qualify for the job, and it s very untrod ground and very momentous. as ken says, they are in a very tricky spot. yeah, i don t think we can
plus, donald trump and the supreme court, the former president asking justices to intervene in the decision banning him from colorado s ballot. the argument his legal team is making this morning. and we are tracking breaking news of a shooting investigation at an iowa high school. the latest from perry, iowa, in just a moment. it is 10:00 a.m. eastern, i m chris jansing in for ana cabrera. the list of famous men connected to convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein just got longer as court documents that were kept hidden now go public. more than 900 pages of legal documents were unsealed in federal court, part of a 2015 civil defamation case against the late financier s convicted accomplice ghislaine maxwell accused of grooming teenage girls for sexual abuse. joining me now laura jarrett, and msnbc legal analyst and
can grow az. and i think, as i said, the question will be, does this influence the supreme court s decision making? john roberts and his concerns about the way the court is seen, it has certainly ruled on big questions like shelby county in 2013 and the decisions on his district has ruled in ways that benefit the republican party. but, nonetheless, he has been reluctant to be seen as a totally in that camp and has often tried to balance the books in their decisions. if the outcome of all of these state actions is to create more space for the supreme court, with what most legal scholars would say, reach the cracked a more important decision that the president is not uniformly immune from prosecution, they will certainly have an impact in that regard, as well. ron, all of this comes as trump enjoys a massive lead over his rivals in the gop race
total bans in republican led states that took effect in 2023 and now many blue states have passed laws protecting abortion rights, including it to that took effect january 1st, when it comes to abortion the state of washington s is not getting a law with a goal of making the procedure more accessible with changes to insurance coverage. any health interns plan issued or nude starting january 1st will be prohibited from requiring cost sharing for abortions, which generally includes out of pocket costs, such as deductibles and co-pays. meanwhile, a new law took effect in california on monday that would protect local health care providers from outer steak litigations of they provide abortion services to states with restrictive abortion laws. it also extends to those who provide gender-affirming care to those out of state patients. another new law getting a lot of attention is california s ban on carrying concealed firearms in sensitive places. this is despite a federal judges prior ruling