Trump to face new bid to remove him from 2024 ballot after Supreme Court ruling: Live

During the presidency of Donald Trump the White House Medical Unit operated “like the Wild West”, with controlled substances dished out to administration staff with a serious lack of oversight, according to a report.

Staff members reportedly told Rolling Stone that the White House was “awash with speed”, with prescription medication used by those to deal with the uniquely stressful job of serving the Trump administration.

Mike Bedigan has the story:

Cathy Latham, one of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in his spawling election interference case in Georgia, has asked Judge Scott McAfee to consider additional testimony as he weighs up a move to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and lead prosecutor Nathan Wade over allegations they benefitted financially from a romantic relationship.

In a new court filing, Ms Latham asks Judge McAfee to look at evidence from Manny Arora, the lawyer who represented Kenneth Chesebro (who has already pleaded guilty).

Mr Arora is said to have spoken with Mr Wade’s former law partner and divorce lawyer Terrence Bradley who testified at length that he had no personal knowledge of when Ms Willis and Mr Wade began their relationship but had speculated that it could have been before she hired him.

The possible evidence of Mr Arora would seem to refute these claims but could still be said to have been speculation on Mr Bradley’s part.

I mean, there’s surely no way back from this for Tommy Tuberville.

The US Supreme Court’s reversal of a landmark court decision in Colorado yesterday will keep Donald Trump on the state’s presidential election ballots and on the ballots in a handful of other states where he was also disqualified from the presidency under a constitutional clause barring insurrectionists from office.

It was a unanimous 9-0 decision from the justices, on its face. They agreed that individual states can’t unilaterally remove candidates for federal office from their ballots. But that’s about as far as they got to being on the same page.

Instead, what emerged was a 5-4 conservative majority decision that went far beyond that of the liberal minority, stating that only Congress can decide whether insurrectionists are disqualified from federal office.

What this means is that any candidate who tries to overthrow the government can still get elected to the presidency – just so long as they have the support of the controlling political party in Congress.

Alex Woodward has more analysis below.

On one hand, New Jersey grandmother Susie Wiles is the generous neighbour who brings around casseroles and sends you flowers when you’re in hospital.

On the other, she’s a ruthless political operator who is masterminding the plan to get Donald Trump back into the White House.

For Indy Premium, Alex Hannaford finds out more about “the most powerful Republican you don’t know”.

Trump was on Fox and Friends this morning, delivering some boilerplate talking points in a friendly atmosphere as he prepares himself for Super Tuesday.

Here are a few choice quotes from his appearance, in which he claimed that Hamas’s 7 October attack on Israel would not have happened if he had been president, that Little League games are being cancelled because of migrants sleeping in city parks and that Nikki Haley “misrepresents facts” (!)

On the Supreme Court’s ballot ruling in his favour

“There should be no question. If you win or lose, you have to win or lose at the ballot box, not the courtroom. It was a well-crafted decision and both sides were respectful of it.”

On the spectre of “migrant crime”

“We have to beat Biden, he is the worst president in history. The borders are an embarrassment. People are coming from jails and mental institutions, nobody has seen anything like this. They are coming from jails and prisons and mental institutions and insane asylums and there are terrorists. What they are doing is incredible, they are poisoning our country. We will close the border and deport the people and get them out, no country can sustain what we’re going through right now.

“We have a different country than even two years ago, this migrant destruction of our country. Look at New York and Chicago and Los Angeles. We have a much different country in many ways, also from a voting standpoint, people mostly happy three years ago are devastated right now. They can’t go to hospitals or schools and can’t use playgrounds. I read where Little League is being cancelled because you have migrants living all over the parks and fields. Our country is a mess. We will make a heavy play for New York and Virginia, states that generally don’t go Republican, I think will go Republican a lot. I think frankly the Democrats have themselves a big problem.”

“You had a horrible invasion that would have never happened if I was president. Iran was broke, no money for Hamas or Hezbollah, this would have never happened. They wouldn’t have done it to me. They have no respect for Biden and frankly they got soft and what happened is incredible. It never should have happened. Russia would never have attacked Ukraine, never. You know it, everybody knows it and that wouldn’t have happened. This is on Biden.”

On his New York fraud trial

“The decision was made by a crooked judge, a 100 per cent crooked clubhouse judge. With an equally crooked attorney general. Who campaigned on ‘I’ll get Trump’. People are leaving New York. Businesses are fleeing New York because of that decision. They use statutes to go after me. Never used before.”

“She misrepresents facts, she is not doing very well against Biden. I want everybody to come together and have a unified party, our real opponent happens to be named Biden and he’s a disaster, the worst president in this history.

“Whether she likes hearing that or not, there is no path for her to win. Today I should win hopefully every state. I won North Dakota last night 87 to practically nothing. There is no path. You saw the vote in Texas, that is a poll. 100 per cent for Trump. No path. What is she doing other than hurting the Republican Party? Democrats gave her a lot of money, because as a certain person, Gavin Newsom, said, she is the best option for Democrats. That is right. She lost when you had a Republican primary and Democrats were allowed to vote. I still won and won in South Carolina against her. There is no path for Nikki Haley. I wish Nikki the best, she stood up and said ‘I will never run against our president’ and then she ran. So those things, you don’t like to see. You like to see people that are truthful.”

Joe Biden says that Donald Trump will “do anything” to try and win the 2024 presidential election and contest the outcome “no matter what the result is”.

Ahead of Super Tuesday, a rematch of the 2020 election between the two men looks all but certain following Trump’s domination of the Republican primaries so far.

In a rare feature interview with The New Yorker, President Biden insisted he was the person “best positioned” to beat Trump at the polls again.

Here’s another look at Trump’s reaction to the conservative court’s ruling yesterday from Mar-a-Lago, courtesy of IndyTV.