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Colorado Secretary of State Jenna Griswold (D) blasted District Judge Sarah B. Wallace on MSNBC on Saturday morning for agreeing that Donald Trump participated in an insurrection against the United States government but that it did not preclude him from running to be the commander in chief once again.

Appearing on MSNBC with host Ali Velshi less than 24 hours after Wallace issued her ruling that some constitutional scholars called "preposterous" and "bizarre," a visibly upset Griswold accused the jurist of giving Trump a free pass.

A ruling by District Judge Sarah Wallace requiring that the Colorado secretary of state must place Donald Trump on the state's primary ballot next year, because he is not ineligible according to her reading of the 14th Amendment, was ripped apart by two constitutional law scholars appearing on MSNBC on Saturday morning.

Former federal Judge Michael Luttig and constitutional law expert Laurence Tribe spoke with host Ali Velshi less than 24 hours after the ruling came down where Wallace agreed the former president took part in the Jan. 6 insurrection but didn't feel he was covered by wording in Section Three that would bar him from running for office.

According to Tribe, the judge made an "egregious error" in her ruling which Tribe also labeled as "bizzaro."

"The court did egregiously error in holding that the office of the president is not an office under the United States, turning constitutional interpretation upside down, by finding the unambiguous text of Section Three ambiguous because of a sliver of debate history that is not only itself ambiguous, but is rendered singularly unpersuasive by other exchanges in the debate history," Luttig explained. "That reflects the understanding that the office of president is of course an office under the United States, from which a person can be disqualified by Section Three."

"You suggested that this was a narrow interpretation of section three," he told the MSNBC host. "It is that and more. It is the narrowest possible interpretation of Section Three, it's the interpretation urged on the court by the former president's lawyers. But it's simply incorrect as a matter of constitutional law."

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Tribe added, "In paragraph 100 of the opinion, she [Judge Wallace] concludes he knew he [Trump] lost the election. so what accounts for this bizarre, actually, bizarro upside-down holding that the highest office in the land, the one of the greatest power, the one whose danger to the republic is at its maximum, would somehow be exempt?"

"That the judge herself says, she admits that sounds preposterous, that's her word," he continued. "She says it would carry the preposterous application that Jefferson Davis, who took an oath to the Constitution, before becoming a senator, then became a senator, then turned on the Constitution, then became a Confederate and the president of the Confederacy, that he could then become president of the post civil war United States?"

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Katie Phang Show," former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance expressed dismay over reports that Judge Aileen Cannon is yet again making it extremely difficult for the Department of Justice to prosecute Donald Trump for obstruction of justice.

Reacting to Trump-appointed Cannon delays which has the proceedings running four months behind schedule, Vance pointed out that the jurist is doing nothing that wasn't expected of her.

"So the fact that Judge Cannon is telling special counsel, 'I'm not setting a deadline, I'm not addressing anything until March 1st of 2024,' are we reading the tea leaves directly when we say that this case is not going to go to trial in May of 2024?" host Phang prompted her guest.

"You know, I think you are, unless on March 1 we see an entire different Judge Cannon who suddenly sets fast deadlines and forces Trump's lawyers to move more quickly," Vance replied.

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"But this is death by delay," she added, "That's exactly what we're seeing in this case in Florida."

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