“You don’t want to run against the guy because he’s popular, so you get a judge to throw him out.”
“It’s also terrible for America,” Kennedy added.
Kennedy previously said, following Colorado’s Supreme Court decision to take Trump off the ballot:
“Colorado Supreme Court ruling makes America look like a Banana Republic. Why doesn’t every American understand that if they can do this to a former US President, EVERYONE is vulnerable to punishment for crimes of which they have never been convicted?”
The U.S. Supreme Court has since ruled that states DO NOT have the authority to remove a presidential candidate from the ballot under the Constitution’s ‘insurrection clause’ and that only Congress has that power. This ruling overturned decisions by state-level courts, such as the Colorado Supreme Court, which had sought to remove Trump from the ballot.
Full Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ikcyVzWSyU&t=1s