Jonathan Turley Slams Colorado Lawyer after Trump’s Supreme Court Ballot Hearing: ‘Parade of Horribles’

Constitutional law scholar Jonathan Turley has slammed the performance of Colorado’s lawyer before the Supreme Court during his argument to remove President Donald Trump from the state’s ballot.

On Thursday, Turley, a George Washington University law professor, appeared on Fox News and blasted Colorado lawyer Jason Murray.

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled in a 4-3 decision in December to remove Trump’s name from the state’s ballot for the 2024 election under the 14th Amendment’s Section 3 “insurrectionist” clause.

Murray argued on behalf of Colorado before the SCOTUS justices.

However, Turley asserted on Fox News’s “America Reports” that Murray humiliated himself while answering challenging questions.

“It was a very interesting argument to listen to,” Turley said.

“It was a very difficult argument for Jason Murray who took the brunt of the questions, and he was running the gauntlet.

“Justices were lining up to hit him with very tough questions.

“But what was fascinating was how many of them came from the left of the court.

“The most interesting was Justice [Ketanji Brown] Jackson.”

“What was really surprising is that Murray did not have much of an answer for this parade of horribles as they pushed him to the edges,” he added later in the discussion.

“They pushed him towards the end of the map.

“He had a real hard time and in some cases, he made some small concessions that I think will be repeated in the opinion.”

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The Supreme Court may reach a unanimous or near-unanimous decision as both liberal and conservative justices posed tough questions to Murray, Turley noted.

For instance, liberal Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan pressed Murray on whether a state should have the power to remove a national candidate from the ballot under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

“Maybe put most boldly, I think that the question that you have to confront is why a single state should decide who gets to be president of the United States,” Kagan said.

“In other words, this question of whether a former president is disqualified for insurrection to be president again …

“Just say it, it sounds awfully national to me.

“So whatever means there are to enforce it would suggest that they have to be federal, national means.”

“If you weren’t from Colorado and you were from Wisconsin or you were from Michigan, and … what the Michigan secretary of state did is going to make the difference between whether candidate A is elected or candidate B is elected, that seems quite extraordinary, doesn’t it?” Kagan asked.

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By Frank Bergman

Frank Bergman is a political/economic journalist living on the east coast. Aside from news reporting, Bergman also conducts interviews with researchers and material experts and investigates influential individuals and organizations in the sociopolitical world.

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