BREAKING: Supreme Court rules Trump can remain on Colorado ballot
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. WE’VE LEARNED THAT IT WAS A 9-0 DECISION RULING THAT DONALD TRUMP CAN BE ON THE BALLOT IN COLORADO AND OTHER STATES. JUSTICES DURING THE ORAL ARGUMENTS SEEM VERY SKEPTICAL OF THE
IDEA THAT ONE STATE COULD DECIDE FOR THE NATION WHETHER DONALD TRUMP WAS AN INSURRECTIONIST AND WAS THEREFORE DISQUALIFIED UNDER THIS 150-YEAR-OLD PROVISION. NOW WE KNOW THERE WAS NOT A SINGLE JUSTICE WHO HELD THAT VIEW. SO THERE WERE NO DISSENTS TO THIS 9-0 DECISION RULING THAT DONALD TRUMP CAN REMAIN ON THE BALLOT IN COLORADO AS VOTERS GO TO THE POLLS TOMORROW DURING SUPER TUESDAY, AND ALSO IN MAINE WHERE THERE HAD BEEN A DECISION TO DISQUALIFY HIM FROM THE BALLOT, AND THIS RULING WE UNDERSTAND HAS THE EFFECT OF PROHIBITING OTHER STATES FROM ATTEMPTING TO DO SO, AND
THAT’S WHAT WE HEARD FROM BOTH LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE JUSTICES DURING THE ORAL ARGUMENTS, ANA. FOR EXAMPLE, ELENA KAGAN CONFRONTING THE PLAINTIFFS ESSENTIALLY SAYING, YOUR PROBLEM HERE IS YOU’RE
