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Colorado Supreme Court rules Trump ineligible to run for President due to Jan. 6 involvement.

PA Senators will try to block sale of US Steel to Japanese company.

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Colorado Supreme Court rules Trump ineligible to run for President due to Jan. 6 involvement

In a 4-3 decision, Colorado’s Supreme Court has ruled that former Pres. Trump is ineligible to appear on Colorado’s 2024 Presidential ballot. The majority ruled that Trump’s candidacy was invalidated under the 14th Amendment due to his involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

The 14th Amendment, passed following the Civil War, bars anyone from running for public office if they have engaged in insurrection in the US after having taken an oath to uphold the Constitution. The justices were ruling on a lawsuit brought by a group of Republican and independent voters in conjunction with a liberal election watchdog group.

Trump says he will appeal the decision to the US Supreme Court. It’s unclear how the Supreme Court will rule. Even with its 6-3 conservative majority (3 of which are Trump’s appointees), the Court has in the past ruled against Trump on substantive issues. However, despite the 91 criminal charges against him in two federal cases and another case in the state of Georgia, he has not yet been convicted of any crime, including insurrection.

There are other 14 Amendment-based challenges to Trump’s candidacy pending in other states, including the key swing-state of Michigan. Similar efforts in other states have not been successful.

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PA Senators will try to block sale of US Steel to Japanese company

Pennsylvania’s US Senators John Fetterman (D) and J.D. Vance (R) have announced that they will do everything in their power to block the sale of US Steel to Japan’s Nippon Steel Corp. The $15 billion sale was announced yesterday. US Steel, based in Pittsburg, PA, was founded in 1901 by tycoons Andrew Carnegie and JP Morgan in a $492 million deal (worth about $17.3 billion today, notably higher than Nippon’s offer). Once the largest steel producer and largest corporation in the world, the firm has fallen on hard times over the last 30 years. This is in large part due to sluggishness in adapting to new production methods and technologies.

The United Steelworkers (USW), the union representing US Steel’s workers, slammed the deal as “shortsighted” and expressed fears that the company’s workers would ultimately lose out. As part of the deal, Nippon has promised to honor current labor contracts, though what will happen in the future is uncertain.

Following the announcement, Fetterman and Vance issued statements saying they would do all they could to block the sale. Both senators cited security as a concern, even though Japan is a long-standing ally of the US. Fetterman said he was worried workers would be “screwed over” by the deal in a video filmed on the roof of his home which overlooks one of the firm’s plants. Vance said he wanted to preserve the US steelmaking tradition and the nation’s manufacturing independence.

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