Election. Some state Election Officials have objected to trump collation of the constitutions 14th Amendment, which bars any person who engaged in a rebellion or insurrection from Holding Public office. Lets bring in cnn chief anchor and chief Political Correspondent dana bash and cnn senior legal analyst, elie honig. Guys, as were waiting to see what the Supreme Court decides here, lets do a little bit of a pregame because we dont want to presuppose what the Supreme Court is going to do but elie all weekend long were anticipating this could happen before the colorado primary as part of Super Tuesday and then yesterday, there was this indication from the Supreme Court that somethings coming down, somethings cooking. Yeah. We dont know for sure that this is going to be colorado, but all indications are that it will be because the primary is tomorrow, colorado how his voting tomorrow and it would make sense for the Supreme Court to decide its needs to interrupt you because i got to inter
Right now. I love arizona and i am so proud of what weve delivered. Because i choose civility, understanding, listening, working together to get stuff done, i will leave the senate at this end of this year. Joining us now is msnbc political contributor, jake sherman. How much does this change the dynamics of the senate Going Forward . Drastically. Number one, theres a lot to unpack. Sinema says she chooses compromise. She was part of a lot of compromises in the last three or four years. A variety of compromises including gun legislation. She was part of every major compromise on capitol hill. Number two, this becomes a twoway race between lake and gallego. A head to head race between a republican and democratic where no independent is going to be siphoning off votes. Number three, a real Pick Up Opportunity for either party i guess. Sinema was an independent, but republicans feel as though lake now has a real chance. Democrats feel like gallego has it in the bag. So choose your adventu
Decision does and what it does not do. And were talking about just hours before voters in key states go to the polls. Thats exactly right here. This is the biggest electionrelated decision from the court in nearly a quarter century. And it comes just hours before Super Tuesday. And here a Unanimous Court ruling that the state of colorado cannot remove former President Trump from the ballot under Section Three of the 14th Amendment, the socalled insurrectionist ban. The court writing quote, because the constitution makes Congress Rather than the states, responsible for enforcing Section Three against federal Office Holders and candidates, we reverse we conclude that states may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office, but states have no power under the constitution to enforce Section Three with respect to federal offices, especially the presidency and dana, they talked about their concern that if individual states where each able to make different decisions, that it
Appellate court. By merely deciding to do this, though, the court has essentially upended the attempt to hold donald trump accountable for his actions to subvert democracy. In fact, the court may have ended that attempt entirely. This decision is also certain to reshape the 2024 president ial race, and it will likely play a Determinative Role in its outcome. As much as the significance of this ruling is already apparent, the full consequences here hinge on the timing. In it the Supreme Court said it would hear Oral Arguments in the case the week of april 22 nd. Now, april 22nd is not close to today, and well get into exactly why exactly the court didnt choose a date a lot sooner than that, but april 22nd also on its face sort of seems pretty far from the november election. Its not. Because when you start crunching the numbers and looking at how a trial could actually time out after the Supreme Court makes its decision here, the window in which trump could face trial, the window of that