We look closer at the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday that ruled no state can disqualify a candidate running for national office. It restored former President Donald Trump on the Colorado primary ballot, reversing a Colorado court decision that had taken Trump off the ballot because of his participation in the insurrection on Jan. 6.
Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Stephen Vladeck, law professor at the University of Texas, about why the justices are split on how broad the decision was.
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