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There is no precedent really. david blight pointed out, bush v. gore is pretty close, but there is no precedent for a presidential candidate being disqualified from office for reasons like this. so, there is no existing definition in the jurisprudence that would directly relate to this case, but remember, in the election of 1876, soon after the 14th amendment, supreme court justices were involved and choosing the president then also, and as a lecture -- electoral commission was established, incl...

It was a referendum on the 14th amendment and its meaning, and a referendum on reconstruction and devotes, returned a veto for a republican majority in congress, made possible the reconstruction act at the following year. i am not predicting that we will have a referendum on the 14th amendment, will have a referendum on trumps crimes, i suppose. who knows, if the court delays this, passes it, punts it somehow, that were still debating in this in september and october, then it becomes part of the...

Final round of the faculty club table with soft professor andrew weissmann and history professors, david blight and eric foner. professor blight, how should the supreme court define the words officer and insurrection, if they feel they have to, in section three of the 14th amendment? >> well, if the president is not an officer of the united states, and then nobody. s hes the only person in charge of the entire nation. and by the way, framers of the 14th amendment were worried about the possibili...

>> joining us now, eugene robinson, pulitzer prize -winning columnist from the washington post. also with us david blight, professor of american history and african american studies at yale university. professor blight, we just heard that president echo almost word for word what you said on this program, when he said, now, we are living in an era of a second lost cause. once again, there are some in this country trying to turn a loss into a lie, a lie which if allowed to live with once again bri...

Landscape. they had lost their society. they had a lot to mourn. but the mourning going on in the trump lost cause seems to me a whole different thing. its a nostalgia for some kind of time and some kind of place and some kind of ideal that people dont have any more. it is a yearning for a racial order that seems to be gone. it is a mourning of something they too have lost. but its not nearly as, shall we say, imposing, and powerful as what that south had lost in the civil war. it is nevertheles...

That is not possible. in many ways, the big lesson that we are discussing this tonight, but its a sign of what we come to that this is actually a serious issue that people, that its going to be addressed by the court. like glenn, i think theres no way that donald trump is going to win this argument tomorrow. >> andrew weissmann and glenn kirschner, thank you very much for starting off our discussion tonight. and, glenn kirschner, were gonna need you back here tomorrow night at this hour from in ...

Just acts and doesnt have to go through channels and checks and balances, and systems, and lawmaking. and, you know, the challenge for the biden campaign and for all of us who care about this democracy is indeed winning this battle over where did this democracy come from? how fragile is it really? what has it taken before to put it back together? and what it will take again? and thats why the civil war here is so important. >> professor david blight, i have not been thinking of you as a campaign...

There is no confusion about who trump is. what he intends to do. >> that was president biden on friday commemorating the third anniversary of the january 6th attack on the capitol, while also hitting donald trump for his hate filled and racist rhetoric. tomorrow, the president will echo a similar tone when he speaks of mother manual ame church and charleston south carolina. in 2015, that historic black church, one of the oldest and the south, was the scene of the states worst mass shooting when ...

Six americans are still being held hostage. this is our fight to. >> well have to leave it there. jeremy bash, thank you so much, as always, for coming to the sunday show. up next, election campaign heats up as president biden sounds the alarm on why donald trump is a threat to freedom and democracy. pulitzer prize-winning author and yale university professor, david, light joins me live, next, to discuss. next, to discuss but with prilosec otc just one pill a day blocks heartburn for a full 24 h...