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Today, in a unanimous decision, the justices ruled that its not up to states to bar trump from their ballots under the 14th Amendment, so he gets to stay on the ballot in colorado, where the primary is tomorrow, maine, and illinois. They cant kick him off either. This decision is significant because the Supreme Court has never had to rule before on whether or not states have the power to disqualify a candidate, even an insurrectionist. This outcome is not necessarily surprising. The moment most legal experts heard the Oral Arguments and, specifically the back and forth with the justices, most of them predicted the court wouldnt take the step of barring the republican front runner from the ballot, that they would find a way out, and they did. Now, would a different outcome have sent a stronger message that you cannot fomen ....
Announcer coming up on washington journal, the state of the progressive legal movement. The cofounder and executive director demand for justice will join us. Also the president of the national right to work Legal Defense foundation, mark mix, on workforce issues and recent labor unrest. Washington journal starts now. This is a very sad day for america and was also very sad driving through washington, d. C. And seeing the filth and decay and all of the broken buildings and walls with the graffiti. This is not the place i left, it is a sad thing to see it. When you look at what is happening, this is a persecution of a political opponent. This was never supposed to happen in america. This is the persecution of the person that is leading by very very substantial numbers in the republican primary and leading bided biden by a lot. If you cannot beat him, you persecute him or prosecute him. We cannot let this happen in america. Host good ....
From their ballots under the 14th Amendment, so he gets to stay on the ballot in colorado, where the primary is tomorrow, maine, and illinois cant kick him off either. This decision is significant because the Supreme Court has never had to rule before on whether or not states have the power to disqualify a candidate, even an insurrectionist. This outcome is not necessarily surprising. The moment most legal experts heard the Oral Arguments and, specifically the back and forth with the justices, most of them predicted the court wouldnt take the step of barring the republican front runner from the ballot, that they would find a way out, and they did. Now, would a different outcome have sent a stronger message that you cannot foment an insurrection and be allowed to run for federal office . Yes, it would have. Would it be bet ....
Continues. Host welcome back, my guest is brian fallon, the cofounder and outgoing executive director of demand justice, talking about Supreme Court reform. Welcome to the program. Guest thanks for having me back. Host yes i should say welcome back but before we get to our topic in my wanted to get your reaction to the third indictment of former President Trump. Guest i think the special prosecutor thats been handling this case, jack smith, former head of the Public Integrity section at the Public Integrity section at the Justice Department is very well respected, nonpartisan prosecutor and i think he has done a very methodical job here. The case is pretty watertight. I think this country will get a lit ....
Amy, welcome. Thanks for having. Me lets talk about the term of the 20 20 to 23 term thats ramping up. Maybe this month, maybe next month. Anything that surprised you . Not so far. Were waiting on virtually all of the big decisions. Affirmative action, religion, lgbtq rights on Voting Rights of election law. Its too soon. Were waiting on 27 cases to draw any conclusions about what this version of the court is going to look like this term. Were gonna talk about some of these cases were waiting on. First Ketanji Brown jackson was new this term. What did you see from her. Anything different that you did not expect . Im not sure if i didnt expect. But shes been very active just as perhaps one of the most active new justices. Thats not surprising. And she spent most of her time as a judge. As a trial court judge. She was the only one in the courtroom. She is not dominating by any me ....