After initially celebrating the Colorado Supreme Court’s legally dubious ruling to take former President Trump off the ballot as “a historic level of accountability for January 6th” during Wednesday’s CNN This morning, the network decided to bring on a lucid legal mind during The Lead in former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr, who smacked down their hype by calling the ruling a “denial of due process.”
Asked for his initial reaction by host Jake Tapper, Barr noted that he didn’t support Trump for the GOP nomination but understood that Colorado’s “case is legally wrong and untenable.” He denounced what they did as “stretching the law” and the “hyper-aggressive positions to try to knock Trump out of the race are counterproductive.”
Of course, Tapper decided to read a long-winded excerpt from the ruling where the liberal justices…
