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
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
One or more opinions any moment now as the nation awaits a decision on colorados effort to remove former President Trump from tomorrows primary ballot. Welcome to a brand new hour of americas newsroom. Im dana perino. Potentially any moment. Bill im bill hemmer. Good morning. Hope you had an awesome weekend. We do not know when opinions come today. Colorado is one of more than a dozen states voting on Super Tuesday. So, too, is maine. Well explain that in a moment. While trumps name is on on the ballot in colorado, a decision today would remove any certainty whether votes for trump will be counted. Dana we have fox team coverage. Shannon, jonathan and first david starting us off in washington. What do we need to know, david . Note if this does come and we expect it to likely this would be one day before Super Tuesday. This would be big and its not significant just because this is the Supreme Court but would af affect Donald Trumps eligibility on many different ballots on many states ac
Good evening, i am norah odonnell. And thank you for being with us. We want to begin with the news and analysis of that historic decision from the Supreme Court. The justices ruling that states cannot bar donald trump from running for another term. Even though he is accused by some of insurrection. Colorado and several other states were seeking to disqualified trauma because of his action surrounding the january 6th attack on the u. S. Capitol. Now todays decision was unanimous. All nine justices agreed that trump cannot be barred from the ballot. And perhaps the most important ruling about a presdential election of more than two decades since the decision of Bush Versus Gore in 2000. This is the key paragraph of the ruling. States may disqualified persons attempting to hold state office, but states have no power under the constitution with respect to federal offices, especially the presidency. Now the courts three liberal members say the courts majority went too far. Justices sonya so
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