CBS’s Stephen Colbert and NBC’s Seth Meyers struggled to cope with Colorado having a bad day before the Supreme Court as it struggled to defend its decision to kick Donald Trump off its primary ballot on the Thursday editions of The Late Show and Late Night, respectively.
Colbert struggled with the fact that even the Court’s liberals appeared to be underwhelmed by Colorado’s arguments, “All of the justices, all nine, seemed skeptical that one state could do this on their own. Here’s Elena Kagan.”
He then played a soundbite of Kagan wondering where states get the authority to declare a candidate engaged in a federal insurrection, “This question of whether a former president is disqualified for insurrection to be president again is, just say it, it sounds awfully national to me.”
For Colbert, a state adding to Article II’s eligibility…
