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Overseas ballots will go out before the oral argument, and then the regular ballots have to go out essentially within a week or two of the arguments. early voting starts in, i think, late february. so theres a huge timeline here that the court has to be mindful of. >> yeah, its a jam-packed schedule. the ballot schedule, let alone the former presidents legal schedule, how theyre going to coincide is going to be the biggest challenge. so his appeal, the former presidents appeal that the former pr...

Did trump engage in it. i think they would like to try to decide this on does it apply to the president, section 3, and if it does, do you need congressional enabling legislation to give it an effect. i think they would love to decide this in that early stage. if they cant, they have to ask the question, were these cases in colorado and in maine fundamentally fair, did trump get a fair hearing, before they even get to insurrection. so i think theyre going to try to figure this out on the federal...

Amendment, which is at the heart of this case. >> we did nothing wrong. >> reporter: donald trump was, again, put the united states in uncharted waters, never before in american history has the 14th amendment to the constitution, the so-called insurrectionist ban, been applied to a top presidential candidate. but then again, no american president has ever tried to overturn an election as trump did. what is the 14th amendment? >> this forward-looking rule that if you have engaged in insurrection ...

Suicide by nominating donald trumps does not mean that american voters want to commit national suicide in november of 2024. as long as they continue in this absurd, ridiculous, cultish path, which is to be expected, when you are political personality coal, which is what todays maga republican party is, that is the republican partys problem. but independent voters, a democratic, voters in response to republican voters, see it for what it is, and they are going to reject, it when that choices made...

Supreme court because weve never had a president who was alleged to have done this and so the court hasnt had to deal with it. here you dont have to go back as far. you go back to the civil war because the whole issue of disqualification came up because of an amendment in the 14th amendment that said that if you engage in insurrection or rebellion and you had previously taken an oath as an officer of the united states, you cannot run. clearly aimed at jefferson davis and his cohorts. the impeach...

This is something you said. you said you would take action to end the idea of birth right citizenship for kids of undocumented immigrants. does that mean ending birth right citizenship. >> the 14th amendment obviously applies to u.s. citizens. it was meant to overturn dred scott versus sam ford, to ensure that african americans were citizens, in spite of what dred scott had said, the decision. it was never the intent to say, you come illegally across the border, have a kid, and all of a sudden t...

Some statute and apply it to a former president. he has not been charged with insurrection. he has not been prosecuted for it, he has not been found guilty of it. but this state, as well as colorado, would like to find him guilty of it and take him off a ballot. insurrection under the 14th amendment, let is not forget sean, was to prevent people from a war who were pro slavery, who were anti american from taking office. that is not this. he has never been charged for a due process. still i would...

Illinois tonight. what do you make on where we stand on this issue, the 14th amendment and whether donald trump is qualified to run again in how the supreme court will evaluate this? >> it seems to me that the supreme court will have to hear this case. its a little confusing because every state has different rules about how they determine who gets to appear on their ballot and with the standards are. for instance, in illinois, which is in play tonight, the law in illinois actually requires the b...

The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) published that "the Fourteenth Amendment does not expressly require a criminal conviction."

Being. he has to ask america really, not in these words, but he has to ask america, what do you want to risk going forward? listen to donald trump. listen to joe biden. what are you willing to risk with your vote? meanwhile, voters in illinois and massachusetts have filed petitions to remove donald trump from their states primary ballots. the filings cite the same 14th amendment statute that was used successfully in maine and colorado. both those decisions have been appealed. the illinois chal...