A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on February 9, 2024.
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The day’s bottom line: even when Trump wasn’t taking a formal loss on February 9, 2024, he was still stuck in the kind of legal and political weather that only happens when your campaign is also a rolling litigation project.
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After Feb. 8 oral arguments in Trump v. Anderson, the Supreme Court had not yet issued a ruling on whether Colorado could keep Donald Trump off its ballot. The hearing kept his eligibility tied to Jan. 6 and the constitutional fight over Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.