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On the "NewsHour" tonight: The Supreme Court rules that states cannot remove former President

Donald Trump from their presidential ballots.

GEOFF BENNETT: Vice President Kamala Harris calls for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza,

as negotiations to release Israeli hostages held by Hamas continue.

AMNA NAWAZ: And our new series on America's social safety net begins with a look at how

the system began, the political fights over the last 90 years, and where it stands today.

JAMILA MICHENER, Cornell University: A majority of Americans, something approaching 60 percent,

depending on when you measure and how you measure, will experience poverty at some point

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that the 14th Amendment does not allow individual

states to remove former President Donald Trump from their ballots.

GEOFF BENNETT: In an unsigned opinion, the court said only that Congress, not states,

can disqualify presidential candidates under the Constitution's so-called Insurrection

The former president celebrated the decision.

DONALD TRUMP, Former President of the United States (R) and Current U.S. Presidential Candidate:

Essentially, you cannot take somebody out of a race because an opponent would like to

And it has nothing to do with the fact that it's the leading candidate.

Whether it was the leading candidate or a candidate that was well down on the totem

pole, you cannot take somebody out of a race.

GEOFF BENNETT: And William Brangham joins us now.

States do not have the power to remove federal candidates from the ballot under the Insurrection

Help us understand how the justices arrived at this ruling.

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Remember, Geoff, this came out of a group of Republican voters in Colorado

saying that January 6, to their mind, was clearly an insurrection, and that Donald Trump

was the cheerleader of that insurrection.

And they cited this Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which is, as you mentioned, the

And it argues that, if you have sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution and then you engage

in an insurrection after the fact, you can't hold office again.

And so they appealed that all the way to the Colorado State Supreme Court, and they won.

And Donald Trump was ruled that he has to be taken off the Republican primary ballot.

The Supreme Court is what -- they overturned that today.

And they basically said, you cannot have a system where a lot of different states are

making this decision, because it would simply be a sort of ad hoc state-by-state basis.

In their ruling, they said: "For the reasons given, responsibility for enforcing Section

3 against federal officeholders and candidates rests with Congress and not the states.

The judgment of the Colorado Supreme Court therefore cannot stand."

It said states can choose to withhold and withdraw state candidates, not federal candidates.

GEOFF BENNETT: So, tomorrow is Super Tuesday.

Colorado is one of the many states holding a primary tomorrow, but the impact of this

They printed the ballots already and thought, OK, if the ruling comes in the other direction,

As you mentioned, there are over 30 states that were examining some kind of a challenge

on 14th Amendment grounds to pull Donald Trump off their ballots.

Trump will be on the ballot in all the states.

GEOFF BENNETT: How did the court deal with a specific question of whether Donald Trump

They didn't bring it up in the hearing last month.

There was some disagreement in the ruling today as to who gets to make that decision

The four female justices -- it was interesting how it split on gender lines here -- all four

female justices said that the ruling that states shouldn't be able to make this decision

But Kagan, Sotomayor and Justice Jackson all took issue with the further breadth of this

ruling, which they argue made it much harder to actually enforce Section 3, saying that

Congress has to write a particular statute in order to enforce a part of the Constitution.

These three justices wrote that the other justices crafted this ruling to insulate themselves

I'm going to read a little bit of what they said.

They wrote -- quote -- "The majority announces novel rules for how that enforcement must

It reaches out to decide Section 3 questions not before us and to foreclose future efforts

to disqualify a presidential candidate under that provision.

In a sensitive case crying out for judicial restraint, it abandons that course."

They are clearly not happy with this, something to remember when we see all these headlines

GEOFF BENNETT: And separately, William, Allen Weisselberg, who is one of Donald Trump's

longest-serving associates, he pleaded guilty today to perjury?

Weisselberg was for almost 50 years Donald Trump's chief financial guy.

He got his start as Fred Trump's, Donald Trump's father's bookkeeper.

He admitted that he lied under oath as part of -- he lied to investigators and on the

stand, as part of this big sweeping civil fraud trial that just socked Donald Trump

with nearly half-a-billion dollars in fines.

In that ruling, the civil fraud ruling, the judge in that case ruled that Weisselberg

was central to all of the different fraudulent things that Donald Trump got up to, banned

him from serving as a financial officer, said he's got to pay back half the $2 million severance

that Donald Trump gave him when he was walking out the door.

So now that he's pled guilty to perjury, he could spend a couple of months in prison.

Notably, in this case -- and, all along, and this has been an incredible frustration to

prosecutors in this case -- Weisselberg has never implicated Donald Trump in any wrongdoing.