Does that mean trump essentially is right now automatically disqualified, that he shouldn t be allowed on ballots and so on? jim, what it means and it s a great hong to be on with the disti distinguished and justly celebrated judge luttig, what it means is that secretaries of state or other officials who are responsible for deciding who is qualified and who is not will have to determine whether despite his obvious attempt to overturn the 2020 election and engage an insurrection, whether despite that, somehow trump gets to run. secretaries of state around the country are going to go both ways on that. the red ones may go one way and the blue another, although i would hope that partisan politics wouldn t always determine it but whichever way they go they ll be challenged in court and that will end up in the supreme court.
Insurrection, a rebellion, or that he aided and comforted either of those in his actions on january 6th and antecedent to january 6th. then, and this is what s very important about what we ve concluded and wrote, every officer of the united states and every officer of the 50 states who is charged with qualifying candidates for the ballot in 2024 is obligated under the constitution himself or herself as of this moment to determine whether or not donald trump qualifies for the ballot. now, as professor tribe just
And what it will have to decide is what this language means. it s pretty obvious what it says, in fact, when it was written abraham lincoln was no longer president. we had a president who didn t believe in the 14th amendment, andrew jackson. they weren t going to rely on him and his justice department to decide who should be convicted of insurrection. that s beside the point. so it s important to see what happens in all of these 91 pending charges of crime against the former president, but whatever happens in those cases, this disqualification like the disqualification of someone who was not a natural born citizen or the disqualification of someone who doesn t meet the age limits has got to be enforced according to its terms. for a very long time americans didn t take this seriously. but now the scholars have begun to look at it and as the judge says, i ve looked at it for a long time, it s impossible to
Definitely not a violent terrorist attack it wasn t an insurrection. a violent outbreak of mob violence a forget bli minor outbreak. you see people walking around taking pictures. they don t look like terrorists. they look like tourists. false this maga effort has entered many different efforts for reckoning and accountability tonight may go down in his are i. again, we do the first rough draft here in journalism i m no historian it s well above my pay grade, but i think tonight might go down as one of the dates that looks at key accountability for what started with trump going down that escalator and what had so many beats and moments to it, but certainly january 6th was one of them. here is another one tonight. because it now appears tucker coral san proved too much for rupert murdoch and the execs the decision came straight from
The way it was a protester actually whistling the entire length of the press conference. she says, look this wasn t an insurrection, obviously. we know that it was, and building on that day. and look at the january 6th select committee for two and a half years laying out evidence, waiting to be charged in connection with the wrights all-nighter. that was her view, but look, when you look at democrats there were two lawmakers, members of the oversight panel which here on january 6th, who went along for the jail visit. take a listen to what one of, them robert garcia, had to say and i know you ll speak to the other one very soon. we were, there we saw the insurrectionists attack a capitol. these are folks callous nonpartisan shine to overthrow democracy. to be there was difficult. and the worst part about it was when you actually saw the republicans rushed to them like they were some