Lawyer explains Supreme Court's "only wiggle room" in Trump Colorado case

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Colorado's high court ruled 4-3 to bar Trump from the state's 2024 primary ballot after determining that the former president, who is the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, isn't an eligible candidate because of a Civil War-era clause in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution that mandates officials who take an oath to support the Constitution to be banned from office in the future if they engage in "insurrection.
45% : Newsweek reached out to representatives for Trump via email and Kirschner via social media on Monday for comment.
41% : He argued that because the Colorado courts, which have heard from witnesses and gone through the trial process, have ruled Trump engaged in insurrection, "that is a factual determination that will not be disturbed on appeal, in my opinion, even by the Supreme Court.
37% : However, Kirschner said that scenario would be "insane.""As sure as I am that the Supreme Court will not rule that Donald Trump is a king and is above the law and has absolute immunity, I'm not entirely sure that the Supreme Court won't twist itself into pretzels trying to find a way to say a president gets to engage in insurrection, and still hold office," he said.
13% : Prior to the Colorado ruling, critics had been arguing for months that Trump should be ineligible for the ballot, accusing him of motivating those who stormed the Capitol with his baseless claims of election fraud after his loss to President Joe Biden in 2020.

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