The major legal victory Donald Trump recently scored in Colorado when a judge there kept him on the state's ballot is likely to be short lived, according to a former assistant Watergate prosecutor on Saturday.
The former president celebrated the win at his rally on Saturday, saying the press was having a "meltdown" once it was ruled that he would be placed on the ballot. But legal minds were quick to point out that the judge ruled as a matter of fact that Trump engaged in "insurrection," which could have other ramifications.
Appearing on MSNBC's American Voices with Alicia Menendez, the former Watergate prosecutor and "Sisters in Law" co-host, Jill Wine-Banks, was asked if it makes sense that any public official who engages in insurrection can't run for office again, "with the exception of the president."
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"I don't think that's what our founders intended," Wine-Banks said. "The language of the 14th amendment says anyone, any officer, military, or civil, and the president is both a civil officer of the United States, and the military commander in chief, so he falls into both of those categories."
She continued:
"So the argument that he is not an officer, and that there is a difference between his oath and the oath that a senator takes, is a difference without distinction. The difference between protect and support doesn't make any sense to me. Of course, protect is even a higher burden. If the president has to protect the constitution, he also has to support it."
Wine-Banks added that the judge's decision is "wrong on the law."
"Of course on the facts she is right, and she made a factual finding that he is insurrectionist. And that would bar him if he were an officer. And I believe that any higher court will find that it was the intent to bar such a person from holding the office of president and that he will be barred."
