circuit ruling this week will be taught in law schools and in books about american history for many decades to come. right now in those cases, the supreme court is basically grappling with these key issues involving citizen defendant and candidate trump, which could shape not only this year s election, but legal and political boundaries of history as we know it. on this monumental day, in judicial history. a legal case that could rock the race for the white house. donald trump is now at the center of a u.s. supreme court battle. considering whether the leading candidate for the republican presidential nomination should be banned from running again. it seems like there were at least seven votes against colorado. he is very much lashing back at a lot of the building wave of all these different legal cases. that d.c. appeals court that had taken up this issue of presidential immunity. the court has denied trump s argument. if you read through the 57- page court o
this is a historic moment for the united states supreme court and for american democracy. the justices about to consider whether donald trump is constitutionally barred from being president again. we ll hear the unprecedented arguments and the court s responses live. welcome to cnn s special live coverage of the trump ballot battle at the u.s. supreme court. i m kaitlan collins live outside the supreme court. and i m jake tapper. the nation s highest court will review this landmark case. the division by colorado s supreme court to disqualify former president trump from the 2024 ballot based on what some call the insurrectionist ban 12349th amendment to the u.s. constitution. today the nine justices, three of them nominated by trump, are poised to have the most direct impact on a presidential election since the supreme court decided bush v. gore nearly a quarter sentry ago. now among the questions before the highest court in the land today, did trump incite an insurrecti
repercussions for the election this year and also for the future of american democracy. it is arguably the most important election case to reach the supreme court since bush v gore nearly a quarter century ago. the question before the court is pretty simple actually. does section 3 of the 14th amendment, which bars, quote, an officer of the united states who, quote, engaged in insurrection from holding public office actually apply to the man who incited the january 6th riot, who tried to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power for the first time since the civil war. the colorado state supreme court has already ruled that, yes, trump should be barred from the ballot in that state based on the insurrection that he clearly engaged in. quote, president trump is disqualified from holding the office of president under section 3 because he is disqualified it would be a wrongful act under the election code for the secretary to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot
with ari melber. we talk about history, we talk about precedents, and the unprecedented. but we are going to show you, in our special tonight that we ve been working on, exactly why we have just lived through a truly historic week. and that is not a comment on politics, or media, criticism or media speculation. i can tell you as a point of fact, the supreme court ruling this week, and the d.c. circuit ruling this week, will be taught in law schools, and in books about american history, for many decades to come. right now in those cases, the supreme court is basically grappling with these key issues involving citizen defendant, and candidate trump, which could shape not only this year s election, but legal and political boundaries and history as we know it. it s on this monumental day, judicial history. a legal case that could rock the race for the white house. donald trump is now at the center of a u.s. supreme court battle. considering whether the leading candidate for
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