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⚖️ ALL 9 JUSTICES AGREE TRUMP SHOULD REMAIN ON BALLOT

Just before Colorado voters take to the polls this Super Tuesday, the US Supreme Court said former President Donald Trump CAN appear on the 2024 presidential primary ballot. In a unanimous 9-0 decision Monday, the court reversed a Colorado decision that disqualified him from returning to office because of his conduct around the Jan. 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol.

HOW WE GOT HERE
Colorado invoked the Civil War-era Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which bars former officeholders who 'engaged in insurrection' from holding office again. In its majority decision, the court wrote that only CONGRESS can enforce Section 3.

• The justices said the Constitution does not permit a single state to disqualify a federal candidate from national office, though they are able to do so for state candidates.

• Why can’t states decide? The court says it could cause chaos if state officials can decide who runs for national office, with the ruling stating, "The result could well be that a single candidate would be declared ineligible in some states, but not others, based on the same conduct.”

  • The court’s decision to keep Trump on the ballot applies to other states with similar challenges to his candidacy. More than 30 states have been trying to disqualify him based on the 14th amendment.

  • What the ruling DIDN’T say: Whether Trump actually engaged in insurrection.

ALL TOGETHER NOW
The court agreed unanimously on the ruling. However, the three liberal justices—Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson—wrote their own concurring opinion stating the majority of the court (5 justices) went beyond the necessary ruling by saying Congress must pass legislation for the 14th Amendment to be enforced against a federal candidate.

• The three justices wrote that the decision could "insulate all alleged insurrectionists from future challenges to their holding federal office."

• Conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett agreed with the three liberals that the majority went too far by bringing up Congress, but also didn’t like the tone of the liberals’ opinion. She instead wrote her own opinion, saying that the “court should turn the national temperature down, not up.”

TRUMP REACTS
Trump praised the court for the "very important decision" that he called "well-crafted." In his speech following the ruling, he said “Presidents have to be given total immunity”—a claim that his lawyers will be arguing in front of the Supreme Court this year.

🇫🇷 FRANCE BECOMES FIRST COUNTRY TO ENSHRINE ABORTION ACCESS IN CONSTITUTION

France became the first country to enshrine abortion rights in its constitution yesterday. In a 780 to 72 vote, lawmakers in both houses of the French Parliament cleared the three-fifths majority needed to amend the country’s constitution. After the vote passed, the Eiffel Tower was lit up with the words “my body my choice.”

The legislation arose from concerns in France after the US overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

WHAT THE TEXT SAYS
The amendment states that there is a “guaranteed freedom” to abortion in France. Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said, "We're sending a message to all women: your body belongs to you and no one can decide for you," instead of being "at the mercy of decision makers."

• Widespread support: France legalized abortion in 1975, and in 2022 the legal limit for abortions in France was extended from 12 to 14 weeks of pregnancy.

• Polls show around 85% of the public supports abortion and a majority wanted the constitutional amendment.

  • The no votes: Some lawmakers who voted no did so because abortion access is already widespread in France and they felt the measure was not needed.

ABORTION AROUND THE WORLD
The Center for Reproductive Rights says that about 60% of women live in a place where abortion access is legal. In the past 30 years, the US, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Poland have made it harder for women to get an abortion.

• A recent Pew survey found that about 71% of adults across 24 countries believed abortion should be legal.

📲 APPLE FINED $2 BILLION BY EU FOR “ABUSING” APP STORE

The European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, hit Apple with a massive antitrust fine yesterday for setting unfair rules that hurt music streaming rivals using the App Store.

The regulatory body said Apple needs to pay nearly $2 billion and change its practices of restricting app developers from informing customers of alternative ways to subscribe to music-streaming services. [Apple takes a 30% cut when users use the in-app payments system.]

ISSUE AT HAND
In 2019, Spotify brought the complaint to EU antitrust regulators, leading to a multi-year investigation. It found that Apple banned developers from telling iOS users—the operating system for iPhones—about cheaper streaming subscription options available on a website vs. the App Store. Regulators say this gives an unfair advantage to Apple Music.

• The commission said: “Apple’s conduct, which lasted for almost 10 years, may have led many iOS users to pay significantly higher prices for music streaming subscriptions.”

  

• Spotify said the decision marks “an important moment in the fight for a more open internet for consumers,” but that “it does not solve Apple’s bad behavior towards developers beyond music streaming in other markets around the world.”

  • Other industries impacted: US courts said Apple was NOT setting unfair payment policy in a similar antitrust challenge brought by Epic Games, the maker of the Fortnite video game series.

APPLE HITS BACK AT SPOTIFY
Apple said it would appeal the decision, and says its policies have not prevented Spotify from controlling over 50% of the music streaming market.

⏳ SPEED READ

🚨NATION

📌 Super Tuesday election guide (NPR)

📌 Ranked: Top 10 states with most stressed out residents (CNBC)

📌 FAA finds ‘multiple instances’ of Boeing quality control issues (CNN)

📌 Hackers behind massive medical/pharmaceutical system ransomware attack may have just been paid $22 million (WIRED)

📌 How Bill and Hillary Clinton plan to get involved in 2024 campaign (NY MAG)

📌 National guardsman accepts 16-year prison sentence for Pentagon leak on Discord (AXIOS)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Kamala Harris meets Netanyahu rival in push for cease-fire deal (AP)

📌 UN: ‘Clear and convincing information’ that Israelis were raped on October 7 & hostages held in Gaza subjected to sexual violence (NPR)

📌 Haiti declares national state of emergency amid violence and jailbreak (REUTERS)

📌 Mexico City, one of the world's most populated cities, is nearly out of water as many go "days if not weeks" without it (ABC NEWS)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Antibiotic after sex greatly reduced syphilis and chlamydia cases (NY TIMES)

📌 Jeff Bezos surpasses Elon Musk to be world’s richest person again (CNN)

📌 JetBlue, Spirit end $3.8 billion merger agreement after losing antitrust suit (CNBC)

📌 First over-the-counter birth control pill in US begins shipping to stores (AP)

📌 SpaceX, NASA successfully launch manned Crew-8 mission to International Space Station (NBC NEWS)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Eagles' Jason Kelce announces retirement after 13 seasons (ESPN)

📌 Kate Middleton spotted for first time since January hospitalization (FOX NEWS)

📌 Dartmouth basketball players to vote today on whether to form the nation’s first-ever college athletes’ labor union (AP)

📌 Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused of involvement in shooting at recording studio in amended complaint (NBC NEWS)

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🗓 ON THIS DAY: MARCH 5

• 1770: The Boston Massacre occurred when British troops opened fire on a colonial mob, killing five. It inspired more anti-British sentiment in the lead-up to the American Revolution.

• 1868: The first US presidential impeachment trial began for President Andrew Johnson in the US Senate over hit attempt to fire Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. He would escape conviction by just one vote.

• 1946: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill made his “Iron Curtain” speech at Fulton, Missouri. The “Iron Curtain” describes the imaginary line dividing Europe between Soviet influence and Western influence.

• 1971: Led Zeppelin introduces the song “Stairway to Heaven” at a show in Belfast.

• 1999: The film ‘Cruel Intentions’ premieres in theaters.