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Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), a moderate House member running for the U.S. Senate, said on Wednesday she thought it “makes sense” for former President Trump’s ballot eligibility under the 14th Amendment to be left to the federal courts to decide. In an interview on CNN with Wolf Blitzer, Slotkin was asked whether the Colorado Supreme…
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Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis claimed that there is no politician phonier than fellow candidate Nikki Haley in his latest attack advertisement. DeSantis posted a video on his DeSantis War Room account on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, targeting Haley, the former U.N. ambassador and former South Carolina Governor. “Aside…
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The Biden campaign on Thursday outlined its arguments and strategy for the president’s reelection bid, focusing heavily in a year-end memo on the threat former President Trump poses to democracy. Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez laid out how the campaign is building out its operation in key states and fine-tuning its message as the…
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AdvertisementNewsletterA clash between constitutional textualism and voter empowerment.By David Leonhardt and Ian Prasad PhilbrickAt its core, the Colorado lawsuit trying to keep Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot involves a clash between constitutional textualism and voter empowerment.If you simply read the 14th Amendment, you will understand the argument that Trump should be disqualified from serving…
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“Justice will be done only if such a case is heard by judges whose impartiality cannot reasonably be questioned,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal said.

"We don't need to have judges making these decisions," Nikki Haley said.Republican presidential candidates and lawmakers fell in line behind former President Donald Trump after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled he was disqualified from appearing on the state's primary ballot for inciting insurrection, citing the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.In a familiar trend,…
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ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeIn the 24 hours since the Colorado Supreme Court kicked former President Donald Trump off the state’s Republican primary ballot, social media outlets have been flooded with threats against the justices who ruled in the case, according to a report obtained by NBC News.Advance…
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Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said Thursday the recent failure of Congress to pass a new round of aid to Ukraine is “a tremendous gift” to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “You know who is going to have the best Christmas imaginable? Vladimir Putin,” the Virginia senator posted to his account on X, the platform formerly known…
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The Folly of Colorado’s Trump Disqualification – WSJ  The Wall Street Journalsource

2024 Presidential ElectionAdvertisementThe former president’s comments on migrants have been widely criticized as racist and xenophobic.By Michael GoldReporting from Waterloo, IowaFormer President Donald J. Trump on Tuesday doubled down on his widely condemned comment that undocumented immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” rebuffing criticism that the language echoed Adolf Hitler by insisting that…
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From the debate stage to the campaign trail, the 2024 presidential race is already well underway. Among the Republican candidates challenging President Joe Biden are Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and former President Donald Trump.But, Trump’s election season may look a bit different, since he faces a packed campaign and…
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Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu (Calif.) mocked former Trump aide Kellyanne Conway’s criticism of Democrats’ focus on Jan. 6, following the Colorado judiciary’s decision to block former President Trump from the state’s primary ballot due to his role in the 2021 Capitol attack. During an interview on Fox News on Wednesday, Conway said, “And when you…
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The special counsel argued that the nation deserves resolution as soon as possible on the criminal charges against Trump for his Jan. 6, 2021, coup attempt.

What to WatchAdvertisementSupported byBest of Late NightFallon joked that before the court ruling on Tuesday, “Trump thought ‘the insurrection clause’ was one of those Tim Allen movies on Disney+.”By Trish BendixWelcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch…
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Trump’s Truth Social post came two days after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that he is ineligible to be president based on the 14th Amendment.

House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) expanded his probe into special counsel Jack Smith, asking him to turn over all documents and records related to his prosecutions of former President Trump. It’s a familiar move from Jordan, who similarly asked Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) to…
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Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he believes the indictments against former President Trump “sucked out” the oxygen from and diluted the Republican presidential primary race. Trump has been indicted four times, first by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) and a New York grand jury in March 2023 on charges related…
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Legal The ruling will almost certainly wind up in the U.S. Supreme Court. The constant controversy surrounding Donald Trump is not, of course, a clear political benefit for him. | Charlie Neibergall/AP By Adam Wren and Josh Gerstein 12/19/2023 10:45 PM EST Link CopiedThe ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday that Donald Trump,…
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Former President Trump on Thursday denied that he is an insurrectionist after President Biden said it was “self-evident” Trump was one for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. “I’m not an Insurrectionist,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, specifically pointing to his comments on Jan. 6 in which he encouraged supporters…
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This December marks 75 years since the adoption of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a monumental document that has mainstreamed human rights and put them at the center of global freedom, peace and justice. For President Biden, who declared at the beginning of his presidency that human rights are “among the most powerful and…
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Donald Trump received an early Christmas present courtesy of the Colorado Supreme Court.In a move without precedent, the justices ruled 4-3 on Tuesday that Trump was ineligible for the state’s 2024 presidential ballot, owing to his role in the attempted Jan. 6 overthrow of the federal government.(And let’s not shrink from a rightful description of…
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The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that Trump is ineligible to appear on the state’s primary ballot because he engaged in insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.

WATCH LIVEPart of the 14th Amendment bans on insurrectionists holding public officeThe Colorado Supreme Court made history Tuesday with an unprecedented, freeze-in-your-tracks ruling that former President Donald Trump is constitutionally ineligible to run in 2024 because the 14th Amendment's ban on insurrectionists holding public office covers his conduct on January 6, 2021.The 4-3 decision removes…
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