Colorado's Supreme Court, the highest court in that state,
ruled that former President Donald Trump is ineligible to serve
another term because of his role in inciting violence at
the Capitol on January 6th,
2021. What this decision really does is it puts the
United States Supreme Court on the hook.
Donald Trump has vowed to appeal this case swiftly to
the Supreme Court,
and that means that the Justices are going to have
to decide this issue of whether the Constitution's insurrection clause
bars a former President.
Second term, based on what Trump did in 2021,
a lot of courts have looked at this issue.
Colorado is the first to rule against Trump on this
very question.
And so if the Supreme Court upholds the Colorado ruling,
then you can expect to see more litigation and the
litigation that's already pending move more quickly toward resolution.
And what that would ultimately mean is that Trump could
be knocked off the ballot in many key states.
I think people sort of expect that this president's going
to have a good ride,
but that just hasn't really borne out the Supreme Court.
Particularly post presidency for Trump has repeatedly knocked.
Trump down set aside his cases,
and there's certainly a chance it does so here.
If it does, I suspect it'll do so on very
narrow procedural grounds.
Public approval polls show that,
you know, faith in the court is just way down.
And I suspect that the thing the Supreme Court would
least like to do right now is insert itself in
the 2024 presidential election.
However.
Cases like this, they really give the court very little
choice.
Even in action is a decision.
You've got this case from Colorado.
You've got a big case regarding Trump's immunity and whether
he gets immunity from criminal charges for his role in
trying to overturn the 2020 election.
And there's a case dealing with January 6th and certain
charges that the federal government is,
is, is charging people with,
including Donald Trump. So Trump is,
I think for the Supreme Court,
it's an unavoidable issue for them for the next several
months.