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The legal cases and constitutional challenges against Donald Trump could all lead to a crisis. Here’s a guide to help sort reality from hype.

Arguments in about 80 of those casings touching on every aspect of american life, big or small. and at this very moment, they are waiting to hear if they will pick up one of those big cases, the kind of case that winds up in the had history books. the outcome could determine who is on the ballot for milons of voters as they head to the polls this year. we are talking about a challenge to donald trumps spot on the ballot based on the 14th amendment, which bars insurrectionists from running for of...

Going to foe meant. what makes you think if donald trump gets his way hes going to play ball with everybody, that hes going to behave, that hes not going to engage in further insurrection. if he gets elected in november, what happens in 2029? when hes not eligible to run again and decides, i kind of like the white house. the lincoln bedroom, not so bad. i think ill stay. so theres always the this element about him that says hes going to destruct and destroy. disrupt and destroy. thats the game. ...

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Amendment founders actually lace ed into the text of the amendment a democratic solution. so if trump is upset about being labeled an insurrectionist, he has the option under the 14th amendment to go to congress and get a vote on whether or not he should be reinstated. thats the democratic way. if you want to talk voter choice and the like. >> and theres the argument that congressman raskin has made this is one of the eligibility requirements where theres something like age or the place they are...

Ability to challenge in quite the same way. and that reflects the laboratory of our democracy. i dont i think that makes it hard for the supreme court to issue a ruling one way or the other on the big questio. they can certainly say the 14th amendment section 3 appies to presidents, applies to insurrectionists. and maybe in certain states, they can remove trump from the primary, but by the time it comes to him in the eligibility to hold office at the general vote, it maybe that hes disqualified ...

Multiply that by a two if it really is going to be two layers. and then you have 50 states making out heart rules about what procedures have to be applied before someone can he found guilty or disqualification can attach to him under the 14th amendment. you will have true chaos running up to the election. >> martha: what do you think the court does under the achieved justice roberts. i know jonathan turley wrote a piece the other day where he said, "roberts would probably want to see the court a...

Or two of the three progressive judges and has like an overwhelming majority. that is what i think, martha, they dont want to get into is the nitty-gritty of was there and insurrection? did truax do mike trump insight and insurrection and for purposes of the 14th amendment? the way i think you get around that is to simply say that there is law for the proposition that this provision of the 14th amendment is not as they say self executing, which means like a number of other things under the 14th ...

Advance, giving donald trump and his team an opportunity to go into the main courts and to file an appeal. he has now filed an appeal with the superior court. the superior court will issue a decision either supporting what the secretary of state found or ruling that decision and then will proceed to the main supreme court but, ultimately, the decision about whether the 14th amendment disqualifies donald trump, who ends up before this or pre-uncork, because as we know, a similar determination was...

To make a determination on trumps eligibility. >> we made out why under maine law the secretary of state has the law and obligation, duty bound to make this determination and finally that interviewing the facts presented, the evidence, the law, history, we determined, under section three of the 14th amendment, that mr. trump engaged in insurrection and therefore was disqualified. >> this all comes just over two weeks after the colorado state supreme court came to the same conclusion, kicking tru...