One or more opinions any moment now as the nation awaits a decision on colorados effort to remove former President Trump from tomorrows primary ballot. Welcome to a brand new hour of americas newsroom. Im dana perino. Potentially any moment. Bill im bill hemmer. Good morning. Hope you had an awesome weekend. We do not know when opinions come today. Colorado is one of more than a dozen states voting on Super Tuesday. So, too, is maine. Well explain that in a moment. While trumps name is on on the ballot in colorado, a decision today would remove any certainty whether votes for trump will be counted. Dana we have fox team coverage. Shannon, jonathan and first david starting us off in washington. What do we need to know, david . Note if this does come and we expect it to likely this would be one day before Super Tuesday. This would be big and its not significant just because this is the Supreme Court but would af affect Donald Trumps eligibility on many different ballots on many states ac
On the books and what implications would that have for trump were he convicted. Thank you so much. Got to leave it there today. Very busy day. Jose diazbalart picks up our coverage right now. Good morning, it is 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart. We begin with Breaking News from the u. S. Supreme court, which unanimously ruled that states cannot remove former President Trump from the ballot over his actions leading to the january 6th attack on the capitol under the 14th Amendment to the constitution. As the justices wrote in their opinion, quote, because the constitution makes Congress Rather than the states responsible for enforcing section 3 against federal officeholders and candidates we reverse. Colorado Secretary Of State Jena Griswold reacted on x saying she was disappointed by the decision ask that colorado should be able to bar oath breaking insurrectionists from our ballot, and donald trump reacted on his social media website calling it a big win for
Right now on ana cabrera reports, were coughing Breaking News from the Supreme Court expected to release decisions at any moment, one of which could be the highly anticipated ruling on Donald Trumps colorado ballot case. Just 24 hours from the super tuesday vote. Plus, nikki haley getting a primary victory, but does her win in washington, d. C. Do anything to change the trajectory before tomorrows elections . Or will donald trump complete his primary dominance this week . Were live in super tuesday states across the country. And later, fire and ice. The monster blizzard bringing dangerous conditions to california as wind whips wildfires in the texas panhandle. All right. We just got the Breaking News. Thank you for being with us here on msnbc. The Supreme Court issuing a ruling on the colorado ballot case. I want to go straight to ken dilanian who is outside the Supreme Court with this decision. Ken, what do we know . Reporter good morning, ana. Weve learned that it was a 90 decision r
Good day. Im Chris Jansing live from msnbc headquarters in New York City. One case down and one potentially even bigger Supreme Court case to go. Were reading the tea leaves of the unanimous decision today as we look ahead to whether the former president can claim immunity. Plus, are we seeing the Biden Administration adjust its approach to israel in real time . The big meetings at the white house today with one of Prime Minister netanyahus biggest political rivals. And Super Tuesday now just hours away. We are live covering a critical race for governor in North Carolina. And former President Trump just elevated a controversial candidate, saying hes like Martin Luther king jr. On steroids. A lot to get to but we start with donald trump heading into the biggest day on the political calendar Super Tuesday on the heels of what pears to be his most sweeping and significant legal win to date. Todays Supreme Court ruling not only ends colorados attempt to kick trump off the ballot but stops
shannon, this was fascinating. we saw the court in almost total unison on wondering how far colorado was going and why. spell it out. yeah, normally you know, neil, it takes years to get here, maybe months if you re fast tracking. this made it in weeks. showing the urgency the court gets about this happening in an election year. so they d had the arguments. there were tough questions for both sides. at the end of the day, it really came down to whether or not this 14th amendment provision applies to president trump. justice thomas had questions about it. when this was passed in the late 1860s, why don t you look at examples from that time period showing this was meant for states to be allowed to kick people off of federal ballots. here s part of that exchange. the concern is that the former confederate states would continue being bad actors. the effort was to prevent them from doing this. you re saying while this also authorizes state to disqualify candidates. so what i m