George Stephanopoulos: ‘No Way’ the Supreme Court Allows States to Remove Trump from the Ballot
ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos determined there is no chance that the Supreme Court will uphold the decision to ban Donald Trump from state ballots in the 2024 presidential election.
Stephanopoulos spoke with ABC Chief Legal Analyst and Mediaite founder Dan Abrams on Wednesday about the likelihood that the Supreme Court will preside over the decisions out of Maine and Colorado to disqualify Trump from the presidency under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Due to the extenuating circumstances, Abrams said, “there is no doubt in my mind [the Supreme Court is] going to take this case,” and “the advantage that the Donald Trump team has is that if they accept any one of the arguments, he wins.”
“We could go through the five or so arguments that he has,” Abrams explained. “You have the due process argument, you have definitional arguments, you have questions about whether it’s self-executing or whether you need Congress to make laws, is the president even covered? If he wins on any one of those arguments, he wins. And that’s the challenge that the other side is going to have.”
“I think you and I both begin from the premise that the Supreme Court simply does not want to step in and decide the election,” Stephanopoulos said. “That there’s no way they’re going to uphold the main decision or the Colorado decision. We may be proven wrong, but what’s the argument?”
Abrams answered it comes back to the matter of due process since the former president has never been formally charged with insurrection, even though that was the disqualifier behind the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision.
“There are real legal arguments that Donald Trump has,” Abrams said. “And because there’s a menu of outs for the court, they’re going to find one. I would think that will say Donald Trump can remain on.”
While he predicted that Trump would remain on the 2024 ballot, Abrams was considerably more skeptical of Trump’s claim of “total immunity” from the legal battles he faces.
Watch above via ABC.
