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During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday morning, former prosecutor Glenn Kirschner made a point of making Justice Neal Gorsuch the center of a discussion on whether the Supreme Court will rule that Donald Trump is eligible to be on the ballot in 2024 based upon what the 14th Amendment to the Constitution says about insurrection.

Speaking with host Michael Steele, Kirschner read from a previous ruling Gorsuch authored before he joined the nation's highest court.

"I think they [the Supreme Court] probably recognize that time is of the essence," he told the host. "This is something that has to be decided urgently as we move toward primary elections in the various states. I agree with Barb [McQuade] that the Supreme Court will inevitably take this up for review."

"Here's something fun to keep an eye out for, Michael," he added. "I think what we need to keep an eye out for is whether Justice Neil Gorsuch, agrees with Judge Neil Gorsuch with respect to how to resolve this issue. Frankly, my favorite part of the Supreme Court ruling in Colorado was when they quoted Judge Neil Gorsuch. About ten years ago he had to resolve this precise issue whether states can keep would-be candidates off their primary ballots because the candidate was disqualified under some provision of the constitution."

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"Here's what Judge Neil Gorsuch wrote: A state's legitimate interest in protecting the integrity and practical functioning of the political process permits it, permits the state to exclude from the ballot candidates who are constitutionally prohibited from assuming office,'" Kirschner read before adding, "So, Judge Gorsuch is sort of 90 percent of the way there, already ruling that states have this authority. Let's see if Justice Gorsuch agrees with himself from ten years earlier."

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Appearing on MSNBC, former U.S. Attorney Carol Lam stated she didn't see the Supreme Court interested in stepping into the fight between Donald Trump and his lawyers with special counsel Jack Smith over whether the former president has wide-ranging immunity from being charged with crimes.

Reacting to a filing made by Smith on Saturday outlining the types of crimes a blanket immunity ruling could cover, Lam told MSNBC host Paola Ramos that she thinks the nation's highest court will let the D.C. Court of Appeals have the final word.

"What I think the Supreme Court may be thinking is, we are going to let the appellate court consider the issue first, and they've set a very expedited briefing and argument schedule for this," she began. "They're going to hear this argument in mid-January. So, if the Supreme Court or the majority of the Supreme Court fundamentally agrees with whatever the D.C. Circuit says, they may just decide not to take the case up in the Supreme Court, and just let the District of Columbia Appeals Court opinion stand."

"That way the Supreme Court will not have to actually render the ultimate decision on this case; they can just decline to take the case up and then they can leave for another day, deciding this particular issue as to the scope of presidential immunity," she continued. "But I do think that Jack Smith has the better argument because he's raised a number of potential scenarios that would be very problematic if a president could do anything he wanted with respect to trying to stay in office and could not be prosecuted for those things."

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"I think that would be a very problematic position for the Supreme Court or even the D.C. Circuit to agree with," she added.

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Reacting to Donald Trump's continuous late-night tirades on Truth Social, as well as his ugly "Rot in hell" attack on special counsel Jack Smith on Christmas day, MSNBC host Rev. Al Sharpton said the ex-president's legal problems are getting to him.

Speaking with fellow MSNBC host Alex Witt on Saturday, Sharpton pointed out Trump shows all the signs of being "rattled" as of late.

With Witt pointing out that Sharpton has known Trump for years, she asked, "Rev, what do you make of all of this?"

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"I think Donald Trump is more rattled than people think about the 91 felonies he is facing, the four cases, and civil suit," Sharpton began. "I think that he is showing publicly now that he is becoming even more unhinged, even though many of us didn't think it was possible."

"Because how do you randomly just do all of that," he continued, "unless there is some deep-seated middle-of-the-night anxiety that he is trying to act like a tough guy but he really has concerns?"

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