SCOTUS: Trump will stay on Colorado ballot |
The Supreme Court unanimously decided Monday that Colorado cannot disqualify former President Trump from the ballot under the 14th Amendment insurrection ban, giving Trump’s bid for a second term as president extra footing.
Monday’s decision, which comes the day before Super Tuesday, effectively ends long-shot efforts that have aimed to keep Trump off the ballots. In this case, all nine justices sided with Trump, saying that Congress is the body responsible for enforcing the 14th Amendment to disqualify federal candidates and that individual states are not authorized to do so. “Because the Constitution makes Congress, rather than the States, responsible for enforcing Section 3 against federal officeholders and candidates, we reverse,” reads the unsigned opinion from the court.
Trump, the frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination, has been accused of encouraging the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol that attempted to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Trump took a victory lap after the ruling was announced, spending little time speaking on the Colorado victory and instead on the presidential immunity case going before the Supreme Court April 22. “If a president doesn’t have full immunity, you really don’t have a president,” Trump said. “They have to make decisions, and they have to make them free of all terror that can be reigned upon them when they leave office.”
Trump currently faces more than 90 felony convictions across four different cases.
(The Hill)
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Speculation mounts over Haley launching third-party bid
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Heading into Super Tuesday, speculation is brewing around Nikki Haley — the former South Carolina governor and long-shot candidate for the GOP presidential nomination — potentially launching a third-party presidential bid.
The group No Labels, a political group who aims to elect a centrist as president, is open to the idea of Haley leading its ticket.
But Haley, who heads into Tuesday’s contests trailing significantly behind former President Trump and will likely struggle to win enough delegates, is squashing any rumors she’d run as a third-party candidate. Haley said her place is in the Republican party and that she does not want to run on a unity ticket with a Democrat vice presidential candidate.
The group No Labels had been courting Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), a conservative Democrat, for months before he said he wasn’t interested. (The Hill) |
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Super Tuesday, a day seen as decisive in presidential primary races, is happening this week. In addition to one U.S. territory, 16 states will hold their GOP primaries Tuesday. |
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Katie Porter’s fate comes down to the wire in California
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The California Senate race is coming down to the wire, and for Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) it looks like a second-place showing and advance into November’s runoff in the state’s jungle primary are still in reach, though possibly far. Polling has shown Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) leading the crowd of California Senate contenders, with Porter and Republican Steve Garvey hovering around second place. (The Hill)
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‘Will fossil fuel production limits help reverse climate change?’ |
“Climate activists opposed to new fossil fuel projects are often met with counterarguments from the right and center which argue that if the U.S. doesn’t produce fossil fuels, someone else will. Or, in the case of natural gas, it will be replaced by even-dirtier energy created by coal. So, who’s right?” The Hill’s Rachel Frazin and Zack Budryk explore this topic more in The Hill’s Energy & Environment newsletter (The Hill)
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