byte is and that answer. with us this morning we have mike barnacle, mara gay, georgeway and staff writer david from. a lot going on this morning. we start with that historic decision. the colorado supreme court has ruled donald trump is disqualify ed from holding office again after determining he engaged in insurrection on january 6th, 2021. the fourth ruling keeps the former president off the state s presidential primary lot next year. the court stayed its decision until january 4th to allow for any further appeals, and the trump team is already vowing they will be doing just that. but the fourth is just one day before the deadline for the state to print its presidential primary ballots. colorado secretary of state discussed the tight timeline in an interview last night on msnbc. if they take the case, we will make clear to the court that the deadlines and the timelines. the bigger thing is if the court does not take the case, as of january 5th, if the u.s. supreme court
Catholic charities, they present an enormous amount of charitable programs and if you force them to violate the religious values, they ll shut down those programs because they re not going to violate their religious values. so the court s trying to get everyone here to try to find a middle ground. arthel: right. if you are part of the catholic charities organizations, you donate to them, you want your you uphold you re in sync with their values, you don t want your values sort of dismissed at the same time. so i get it. let s go to texas. the supreme court of the united states is in big trouble in texas for upholding obamacare, deciding that the affordable care act is constitutional. as you know, this is the third time the gop tried to get obamacare overturned. why are they upset? and will they try again? well, quite frankly i think a that they need to step back a bit about this case.
Constituencies. the fight for d.c. statehood is not new. this time, it might be different. we have seen for the first time for any president to release a policy statement saying they support d.c. statehood and willing to make it the administration s priority to get it done. do you believe the district of columbia will one day be the washington douglas state, commonwealth? i m sure that the enslaved people did not think they were going to be free. and i do believe in d.c. statehood. that was nbc s trymaine lee reporting. the rest of this conversation can be heard on trymaine lee s podcast, into america. next, after upholding obamacare, how will the supreme court rule on protecting voting rights? a big week ahead awaits major decisions. and coming up, we look to the fall and a supreme court showdown on abortion rights. you re watching american
They can allow it without it being considered discrimination or or allow it to be basically what this group wants to think and feel and say, but they re not looking to break new ground on new compromises or move the needle, so to speak, on some of the clashes we have seen between what groups see as religious freedom and others as baseline equality. jeffrey touched on this, pete. i want to dive into this. the role of justice amy coney barrett. this was the first case she heard argued when she took her seat on the court, am i right? was fulton county the first? i guess it was. you said is there any significance to them coming out so early. these cases were argued in november. obamacare was argued the day after the election. it has been a long time. something has been going on that usually cases that take this long to come out, it s because of the back and forth between the majority and
Capitol hill, nancy pelosi and members of the congressional black caucus held an event to celebrate the passage of a bill that makes juneteenth a federal holiday. president biden is expected to sign the juneteenth national independence act into law this afternoon. that means juneteenth will be the newest federal holiday in nearly four decades. i m joined by a member of the cbc, congressman gregory meeks. he is the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee. you were at the event with speaker pelosi. how important is this moment to you? how important is this moment for our country? craig, it s historic when you just think about the history of what we are talking about. it took two years after the emancipation and proclamation for slaves to find out they were free. it gives recognition of the country of the horrible past and now to make sure that we