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Former President Donald Trump scored a big win Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court declared that individual states could not remove him from their ballots, no matter the reason.
The ruling really got under the skin of The New Abnormal hosts Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy, who argue on this week’s episode that the high court’s strange approach to states’ rights shows exactly why elections for national office should be held at the national level.
“I say if states can’t decide for themselves who can be on their ballots, if only the federal government can make that decision, let’s take this all the way,” Levy said.
“I don’t like the fact that we have 50-plus presidential elections every four years. I think it’s stupid,” Levy added. “I think it leads to ridiculous results where people can win more electoral votes, which are made up, but win fewer actual votes and be named president.”
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Then, Jose Pagliery, a political investigations reporter at The Daily Beast, joins the program to discuss Trump’s jam-packed court calendar—which is set to ramp up into high gear in just a few weeks as the country’s first-ever criminal trial of a former president begins.
“What we’re getting now is all of these legal problems that are surrounding Trump are starting to come to definitive conclusions,” he said.
Plus! A conversation with journalist and author Radley Balko about the sinister attempt to “retcon” the death of George Floyd and exonerate the cop who killed him, Derek Chauvin.
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