The Supreme Court today making it a reality and making history settling an issue thats been unclear since reconstruction. All nine justices deciding that neither colorado nor any other state can bar him under the 14th amendment, Section Three insurrection language quoting from the opinion, quote, we can clued 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. The opinion was per curiam, meaning not attributed to any specific justice however, in a concurrence that you might say reads more like a dissent justices sonia sotomayor, elena kagan, and Ketanji Brown jackson take issue with the rulings broadness, which they suggest is to quote, insulate this court and petitioner from future controversy. The petitioner, of course, being donald trump, asked for him he praised the ruling, then pivoted to the courts. Next big decision on pr
Right. Thank you so much, bill. And dont miss the onehour champions for change special saturday at 9 00 a. M. S3 60 starts now good evening. And what a day and welcome to a week of testimony from perhaps the most consequential in controversial prosecution witness in the former president s hush money trial, Michael Cohen, a onetime fixer attorney, and according to his memoir, Designated Thug for the former president hes now a convicted felon and self admitted per juror, but despite that resume, he took the stand today as the single individual who can show the jury believe him, do what no other witnesses can testify to multiple direct conversations with the former president about then candidates not alleged knowledge and even authorization of every critical step of the alleged good morning crime that forms the basis of 34 Felony Charges against him, plus, cohen can testify to the prosecutions allegation that the socalled catch and kill scheme was a political move designed to win an elect
legal matters and trump s life, but also the future of immunity for all president s, cnn s joan biskupic has more on today s ruling you are watching for this to come down. now, are we certain that this is going to come down today? we have been waiting for this throughout the course of this supreme court session it will share and i m about to leave my little posterior and our dc bureau and run over there because at 10:00 sharp, this is a very punctual supreme court 10:00 sharp eastern time. the justices will take the bench. they will read excerpts of the final opinions of this term with the last been i m sure this immunity decision. we don t know yet who will who has written it. there s a strong chance that s the chief justice of the united states, john roberts, who would have kept this very important case for himself. and just to remind everyone what s at stake here, the question is going to be at bottom will former president in donald trump be subjected to any kind of crim