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Argument is he says i was not engaged in insurrection. then he offers us this sort of list of even if procedural arguments. to wit he says, first of all, it is not up to state. it is up to congress to tell us how this works. even if it is up to the states, maine in this case, they did not follow their own procedures. the forms i had to fill out didnt say anything about the 14th argument. and he argues the secretary of state was biassed and should have recused herself. then he argues, even if mai...

Article one of the constitution delegates to the state authority to administer elections. and state legislatures main delegate that authority to the secretary of state, which the main legislature has done. under title 21 a, for the legal case at home, and under that process, i am prohibited, whether its placing an 18 -year-old on the ballot or a non-citizen on the ballot, or someone who has served two terms like barack obama or george w. bush, or someone who has not meet the constitutional quali...

And, again, the 14th amendment is vague. it gives us some definition of what insurrection means, and this is why the supreme court must step in. the court steps and pretty quickly because super tuesday is coming up, and the next couple of months, and decisions had to be made about who will and will not be on the ballot, particularly in states like maine and colorado. >> exactly right, of course, trump faces similar amid challenges in other states, including in colorado, where the state supreme c...

The office they seek. section 3 of the 14th amendment is part of the constitution. its not an option. its a requirement. i had a duty and obligation to follow the constitution. >> laura: ha ha ha. oh, first of all she looks like she is created in some kind of a.i. lab thats weird. second of all, what constitution exactly is she reading? her only duty was to the democrats who want trump off the ballot because he is leading. late tonight his legal team appealed maines transparent act of lawfare se...

Courts, have the authority to make determinations of who is qualified or not. those are questions the supreme court will have to decide. >> do you believe the former presidents argument that the secretary of state of maine doesnt have that legal authority? >> its not clear at all that she does not have that authority. under the maine law, it is clear she does. as the presser pointed out. and trump is really just throwing everything he has against the wall to see if anything will stick. its that ...

All dead and that it could not ever exist again. that is, that somebody could try to take some states out of the union over racial slavery or over anything else. that is what people need to understand here. section three wasnt just some politicized moment that can now be used in some politicized way. it was part of a very large effort by the original republican party to put the union back together in such a way as to try, with their laws, as john bingham, the author of section one of the 14th am...

Government and tried to stay in office. now, if indeed his lawyers can win in court on the definition of section three of the 14th amendment, then it is as if we are going back and erasing the very reason it was put there in the first place, which, to the radical republicans who wrote it, the original republicans, in 1866, they were trying to prevent a new slave power. a new organized attempt to create a slave holding republic. they were trying to prevent a new confederacy of some kind that woul...

Whether donald trump, his actions, rose to the insurrection as its defined in the 14th amendment. keep in mind the 14th amendment itself is very vague. its not saying who should define it, so we now have 50 bodies defining it in 50 different ways. and that cannot really stand either. so there are reasons why i think that the supreme court is expected to make some sort of ruling on this at the end of the day. >> gareth, donald trump is now baselessly claiming that liz cheney deleted evidence from...

The provisions in the 14th amendment around insurrection and so on. now they sort of stretch common sense when even saying them out loud. come on, the president is not an officer of the united states and its still an important legal question based on the conversation that has to be sorted out and we saw that in the maine appeal and you saw it in the colorado appeal that you referenced there and a number of other ones of whether he ought to be on the ballot. >> and the process that they have a du...

The republican party of colorado has already filed an appeal there, but it is expected that trump will also appeal that decision. what is clear is that the the scene supreme court as the way in here to give some clarity on who the section three of the 14th amendment applies to, who is supposed to enforce it and, there is a desire by many parties and states do have some clarity on this before super tuesday. pilloried, cnn, washington. joining me now to discuss this is a reba moore in, attorney ...