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War americans have been in to make sure we vindicate this. this is highly rich that the left is using the 14th amendment, which protects and pushes back against the very claims that democrats made in the 17th and 18th century to then say today in the 21st century when black, latinos and rushing mightily to say we want our right to exercise self-government and for us that means not you, mr. biden. that means we get to decide shame on the left for indulging in the ability to rye move rights from p...

Professor to another, coming up, donald trump might have to go to the united states supreme court to get his name on the presidential ballot in maine colorado, which would leave supreme court justices, once again, playing amateur historians, this time about the 14th amendment, for the guidance of a professional historian, the supreme court should consult the work of our next guest, yale history professor david blight, an expert on the 14th amendment. professor blight joins us next. pfizers rsv v...

Conspiracies continue to grain ground for republican voters. trump now wants to use his january six criminal trial to push the conspiracy theories even further. that is if trump does manage to see the inside of a courtroom before election today. tonight, were expecting donald trumps legal team to tell the d.c. appeals court why they believe trump should be immune to prosecution for anything he did as president. trumps federal criminal trial was effectively on pause until that question settled, a...

President trump appealed the ruling in maine that bars him from the primary ballot there. garrett haake is following all in. garrett, what more do we know? >> lester, mr. trumps appeal calls maines democratic secretary of state who banned him from the ballot there biased, saying she had no authority to act. last week she ruled the republican front-runner ineligible for maines ballot, saying he was in violation of the 14th amendments prohibition against insurrection for his actions on january 6th...

Lost cause, the trumpian lost cause could win the presidency again and come back into power, unless we use the terror of our laws to prevent it. >> joining us once again is david blight, professor of american history and african american studies at yale university. processor bright, thank you very much for coming back. i cant tell you how agonizing it is for me to go to a commercial in situations like that and i just want to give you more time to expand on your point. with the departure point be...

States in the nation that actually awards an electoral vote to the winner of each congressional district in the state. keep in mind trump actually won an electoral voting back in maine in 2020 in 2016, because he carried in fact the second district. of course the answer to your big question, where does trump need to stay on the ballot come 2024. i want you to take a look, here pending litigation or moved on from the ballot because they want to use section three of the 14th amendment, these are s...

Defined in the constitution. a consist of levying arms against the union, for at a hearing to the enemies here of. there -- even jefferson divisions, so interesting, the people say that section three does not apply to the 14th amendment. section -- jefferson davis, when he was tried for treason in virginia, claimed, iranians sly and unsuccessfully, that he could not be tried for treason, because he already was guilty under section three at the 14th amendment, and, therefore, it was being punishe...

In colorado, are not really arguments about section three of the 14th amendment and why conservatives and liberals alike have concluded that it applies here. theyre basically arguments against the constitution. their arguments say the constitution of the united states made a big mistake in telling officials of the united states, especially a president, that if they take an oath to support the constitution and then turned against it and engage in treachery against the constitution, insurrection a...

She is unelected. she is not a lawyer but all of a sudden she has become a constitutional scholar. and she thinks she has the unilateral power as this unelected nonlawyer secretary of state to takake away from 360,0 name to republican voters, they are right to choose their candidates for the president of the united states. she is clearly this reading section 3 of the 14th amendment. the only way you can remove a candidate under section 3 of thf 14th amendment is to bringl gr federal, criminal ch...

It will be two weeks after that for a decision. this is all going to happen very quickly. >> and on the 14th amendment issue, this is obviously playing out all over the country. it will eventually get to the u.s. supreme court, but should the high court wait for all of these different states and their appeals to cycle through before weighing in on this? or, is there a time imperative here? i mean, these primaries are coming, and theyre coming very fast. >> well, i think it -- youve already seen ...