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Ted Cruz: “That entire legal proceeding took 36 days.”

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Defending Democracy - Trump Will Win at the Supreme Court | Verdict Ep. 194

Published January 8, 2024 | Video Starts at 13:03

Walk us through that comparison. Yeah. So Bush versus Gore. I was part of the legal team representing George W. Bush in the year 2000. That entire legal proceeding took 36 days. And I was down in Florida and Tallahassee as a baby lawyer. I was, you know, 29 years old, but part of the legal team, one of the most junior … (13:03–13:07)

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“Secretary of state is not a lawyer. She is not an elected official by the people. She is elected by the state legislature in Maine.”
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“Appeals to the Supreme Court, as a general matter, lie either from state supreme courts or lie from federal courts of appeal.”
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“The question is overwhelmingly, it is entirely one of federal law, namely what the 14th Amendment to the Constitution means.”
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“I predicted the Supreme Court would do exactly what it's done, that the Supreme Court would take the case and that they would take it…”
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“They've set the oral argument for February 8. So that is exceptionally fast.”
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“The Colorado Republican Party has filed an appeal. Trump will certainly file, will participate in it.”
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“I believe the US Supreme Court is going to reverse the Colorado Supreme Court, and I think there is a very good chance that the US Supreme…”
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“If I were to put the odds of a unanimous decision, I'd say the odds of a unanimous decision are 60% to 70%.”
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“The chief justice, John Roberts, is going to be deeply invested in wanting this to be unanimous, in not having the Supreme Court appear…”
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“Chief Justice Rehnquist... said... I think I could get a majority of my colleagues to say John Roberts is the best supreme court advocate…”
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“If the US Supreme Court affirmed the Colorado Supreme Court decision, Donald Trump would be struck from the ballot.”
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“Within very short order, Trump would be removed from the ballot in all 50 states.”
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“Only ground on which the US Supreme Court could affirm the Colorado Supreme Court is to conclude that Trump is barred from running for…”
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“If the Supreme Court concludes that, every state will remove him from the ballot, and you will have courts order every state to do that.”
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“I think John Roberts in particular is going to go to Elena Kagan.”
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“I think Roberts is going to try very hard to make the personal case to each of the justices that the court needs to be united.”
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“I think this is of a similar magnitude [to Brown v. Board of Education].”
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“I think every justice will feel an urge to have the court not appear to be a political branch.”
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“It happens very, very rarely.”
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“We will get a decision, I think by the middle of February. We'll have a decision within a week or two or three.”
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“The Supreme Court has what's called a discretionary jurisdiction, which means it chooses which cases to take.”
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“The court typically takes about 80 [cases]. So it takes about 1% of the appeals.”
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“It takes four justices to vote to Grant Cert.”
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“I believe this case was a no brainer. I think all nine of them agreed we needed to take it.”
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“The justices are not looking to opine on this, but once Colorado ruled, they had no choice, and they had no choice but to do it quickly.”
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“We went to the US Supreme Court twice, and in those 36 days, the Supreme Court heard two appeals.”
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“The court can move exceptionally quickly if there is an urgency to do so.”
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“I believe that there was not an insurrection.”
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“I don't think Kagan or Sotomayor or Katanji Brown, Jackson would rule there was not an insurrection.”
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“I think they will resolve whether or not there was an insurrection.”
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“There's a federal statute. So here's what 18 U. S. C. Section 23 83 says.”
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“Donald Trump, it seems, has been indicted all over the place by a bunch of very partisan, overzealous prosecutors who hate the man.”
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“Jack Smith is in DC with a very liberal judge. He's got a DC jury pool that is 94% Democrat.”
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“There's no remote evidence that would prove that Trump had engaged in insurrection.”
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“Donald Trump sent some tweets and stood up and gave a speech in which he told people, be peaceable, be peaceful.”
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“If Trump were convicted of insurrection, if anyone were convicted of insurrection, they would be barred from being on the ballot.”
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“Section three of the 14th amendment was passed in the wake of the Civil War.”
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“There was zero dispute that an insurrection had occurred [during the Civil War].”
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“The Civil War lasted four years, and 600,000 Americans were killed.”
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“A riot where some individuals committed individual acts of violence for which they were prosecuted and are serving jail terms.”
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“I was, in fact, a natural born citizen, because what the Constitution requires is that you be natural born.”
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“I was a US citizen even though I was born in Canada. My mother was a US citizen at the time of my birth.”
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“There were a bunch of lawsuits that were filed against me when I ran [for president], we defeated them all, and the courts threw them out.”
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“The president obviously can't appoint himself, so officers are something different than the president.”
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“The president doesn't commission himself. So the argument is officers of the United States are different from the president.”
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“If the president was an officer of the United States, there would be no need to specify the president, vice president, and all civil…”
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“The president's oath of office is specified in the text of the Constitution. And it is not, in fact, an oath to support the Constitution.”
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“Each side files. The petitioner will file an opening brief that is 50 pages. The respondent will file a response brief that is 50 pages, and…”
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“John Roberts was the deputy solicitor general, the principal deputy solicitor general under George Herbert Walker Bush.”
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“John Roberts was part of our legal team [in Bush versus Gore].”
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“I recruited John [Roberts]... and he flew down and joined our legal team [for Bush versus Gore].”
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“Ted Olson did the oral arguments, but John [Roberts] was part of the mooting team that was asking Ted the questions and preparing Ted for…”
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“Normally an argument is an hour. So normally each side has 30 minutes.”
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“They have post Covid, they regimented it now... they now have a period of questioning from each justice.”
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