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Lawfare Live: CO Supreme Court Rules Trump Is Barred from the Primary Ballot

Benjamin Wittes, Roger Parloff, Gerard Magliocca
Wednesday, December 20, 2023, 10:00 AM
Join Lawfare for a discussion of the court's decision that the former president is disqualified from holding the presidency

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On Dec. 20 at 11 a.m. ET, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes will sit down with Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff and law professor at Indiana University Gerard Magliocca to discuss last night's CO Supreme Court decision finding that former President Trump is "disqualified from holding the office of President under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment." The court ruled that he is banned from the 2024 primary ballot and stayed the ruling until Jan. 4, 2024 pending review by the U.S. Supreme Court. Watch the livestream here or above.

Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.
Roger Parloff is a journalist based in Washington, D.C. In recent years, he has regularly contributed to Yahoo Finance and Air Mail News, and has also been published in The New York Times, ProPublica, New York, and NewYorker.com. For 12 years, he was the main legal correspondent at Fortune Magazine. He is an attorney who no longer practices. He is a senior editor at Lawfare.
Gerard N. Magliocca is the Samuel R. Rosen Professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. Professor Magliocca is the author of four books and over twenty articles on constitutional law and intellectual property. He received his undergraduate degree from Stanford, his law degree from Yale, and joined the faculty after two years as an attorney at Covington and Burling and one year as a law clerk for Judge Guido Calabresi on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In 2008, Professor Magliocca held the Fulbright-Dow Distinguished Research Chair of the Roosevelt Study Center in Middelburg, The Netherlands. He was elected to the American Law Institute (ALI) in 2013. In 2014, Professor Magliocca received the Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award.

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