Welcome to the beat weekend. Let us get right into the headlines. I noticed some of you strongly vote against. They are cheering on that money but if any do not want that money in your district, let me know. The Border Patrol unit has endorsed the spell. The federal Chamber Of Commerce you are saying, no. Look at the facts. I know you know how to read. No, you do not want another 2 trillion tax cut . I kind of thought that was your plan was. That is good to hear. Now, my predecessor, a former republican president tells putin , quote, do what ever you want. It is outrageous. It is dangerous and it is unacceptable. That was the tone we heard from the president last night. I will walk through exactly why this matter so much. This was more than just a good speech, according to many. That would be todays current standards. It was obviously a strong speech by Biden Standards because he is a person who, lets remember, is a respectful traditional aspirate that is part of his thing and that has
Blitzer thanks for joining us. Cnn breaking, news and you are in the cnn newsroom. Im wolf blitzer in washington and we begin with the Breaking News this morning. The United States Supreme Court ruling that former President Donald Trump cannot be removed from any states ballot for his actions on january 6. The nine justices affirming that he can run in a General Election. And once again, serve as the United States Commander In Chief in the Majority Opinion, the court writes that only congress can enforce the 14th Amendments ban on insurrectionists holding federal Public Office trump is responding to the decision calling it, and im quoting him now, a big win for america. But the court did not directly speak to whether or not his actions on january 6 equate to insurrection. Lets get straight to cnn anchor and chief legal analyst, laura coats. Shes outside the Supreme Court for us. Laura, what more, first of all, can you tell us . About this very historic and consequential decision . It i
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
they 70s dirt on scene cnn breaking news. welcome to inside politics. i m dana bash and we start with a monumental supreme court decision on the power of the presidency the highest court in the land is just ruled that donald trump is entitled to some level of immunity from prosecution for actions he took in the final days of his presidency it could put big parts of the election subversion case against him in jeopardy and sets a critical new precedent for future commanders in chief the split 6-3 opinion was authored by chief justice john roberts, who writes in part, we conclude under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of presidential power requires that a former president have some immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts during his tenure. for an office. at least with respect to the president s exercise of his core constitutional powers this immunity must be absolute he also said that there are some parts of what the president does. tha
this. it will end up before the supreme court and we ll see if justice brier and the rest of the majority feels the same way. perhaps this monument will end up surviving. what you are hearing from people online already people are clicking on it in record numbers. they are interested. they want to know why the ten commandments can t stand because days ago we got a monumental supreme court decision on gay marriage. and many people felt gay marriage is legal now and constitutional in every state and yet what happens to the faith with genuinally held objection. and then you have a supreme court of oklahoma saying no more ten commandments on the public grounds. we can have the white house in rainbow but cannot have the ten