l littler had beaten two world champions. and he said he did the same thing every day including an only le omelette for breakfast and pizza for lunch. but luke humphries claimed the world title. littler disappointed but still thrilled about his incredible run. >> it has been unbelievable. the one negative was i lost luke would break me, hold, and then be two down. so that is the only negative. got to the final. and might not get to another final the next five, ten years. but noble to be runner up. so now just want go and win it. >> and what is next for littler? he said i potentially qualify for every tournament out there, so no school, no college, no nothing. it will be luke littler on the darts tour. >> i guess it is every kid's deal, right? andy scholes, thank you very much for that. and thanks to all of you for

joining us this morning. i'm kasie hunt. don't go anywhere, "cnn this morning" starts right now. expected to answer an historic question. should donald trump be allow ed to run for president in the state of colorado. why his team says he dederve serves to be on the ballot. the the first batch of the jeffrey epstein documents unsealed. what it are veals about his relationships with bill clinton and donald trump. plus nikki haley and ron desantis face voters tonight. why new hampshire republicans need to correct the hawkeyes. "cnn this morning" starts right now. good thursday morning. welcome. i'm phil mattingly. poppy harlow is off today. all eyes are now on the supreme

court, which is poised to make an historic decision with enormous implications for the presidential election. can the state throw donald trump off the ballot. trump is asking the highest court in the land to overturn the ruling in colorado that decided he engage d in insurrection and is disqualified under the constitution. this their appeal, they argue the ban doesn't apply to the presidency. congress, not judges, should decide if the candidate is eligible. lawyers insist january 6th was not an insurrection at all. trump told his supporters right before they attacked the capitol. here's part of the speech. >> i know that everyone will soon be marching over to the capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices hard. >> trump said he never told his supporters to enter the capitol, but the supreme court ruled that trump did incite violence to

disrupt the peaceful transfer of power during his speech. here are the parts the justices highlighted in had their decision. >> we're going to walk down to the capitol. you'll never take back our country with weakness. you have to show strength and you have to be strong. with fight like hel 37 if you don't, you're not going to have a country anymore. we're going to try to give our republicans the, the weak one, because the strong ones don't need our help, we're going to try to give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country. let's walk down pennsylvania avenue. >> we're going to bring in zach cohen. first, give us a a few more details about the appeal itself. >> good morning. trump's lawyers are trying to make the core point that the colorado ruling is wrong because

it gets in the way of letting voters pick their own primary candidate and they lean into the unprecedented nature of the situation we find ourselves in. if allowed to stand, we'll mark the first in the history of the united states that that the judiciary prevented voters from casting ballots for the major candidate. they are referring to the colorado ruling that arguing that trump should be removed from the ballot in that state because he engaged in an insurrection. now trump's lawyers do run through several different arguments to try to convince the supreme court that the ruling should be overturned. the first of it is that they say trump did not engage in an insurrection, which is the key point of the 14th amendment. that has been the underlying reason that the colorado supreme court says trump should be removed from the ballot. they argue that trump's actions did not amount in no way did he

engage in insurrection. they say that congress rules on this issue of eligibility. to decide who can be a presidential candidate and who cannot. and then they also try to make the case that trump was deprived of due process and colorado didn't follow its own rules in the lead up coming to this decision. and they say they take issue with the idea that the prosecute president is not an officer and this section of the 14th amendment does not apply. >> we understand we have normalized the word unprecedented over the course of the last several years, but this one is actually the case. and that raises the question, do we have any idea when the supreme court is going to weigh in? >> it's unlike ly they will resolve this issue before the a ballots have to be certified. that happens tomorrow.

but colorado secretary of state has given the supreme court a timeline of election deadlines that she needs to meet. she's urging the justice to move quickly in deciding not only to pick this up, but to rule on the issue itself. so mounting pressure from the states to make a decision to add some clarity. >> huge question with enormous consequences. thank you. joining us now is senior legal analyst for the southern district of new york elie honig. help us understand how this is different from the maine case in terms of what the appeal is. >> they are in different proceed issues. now it's with the u.s. supreme court. the maine case was ruled on by the secretary of state. that has to go through the maine state court system. >> who said she wants a ruling. she wants someone to weigh in here. >> it's ast interesting factor.

usually the side that loses goes to the supreme court asking for the supreme court to take the case. usually, the side that won below says no, you should not take the case because if they don't, whoever wins below, they win. we see most of the people on both sides asking the supreme court formally on the record saying, yes, you should take it. whatever the disagreements have been and certainly will be, everyone agrees on both sides of this. supreme court has to take this. everyone agrees they have to take it quickly. we're under deadlines here almost day by day. >> different posture from trump's legal team that wants everything delayed and pushed as far as possible. in the appeal itself, you predicted four critical buckets. no insurrection, congress, no due process, the president is not an officer. when you combed through those, what sticks out to you? >> definitely focus on the procedural. the argument of did he engage in

insurrection or not, that's not for the supreme the court. they are not going to go through the facts and remind the facts. that's for the trial part. supreme court didn't even do that. >> for somebody watching this and why not? >> the supreme court does not have trial capacity. what the supreme court does is take the record, as we call it, as established in a trial court. and they can base a legal decision. they don't have a witness box. they have argument peddle stalls basically. i would focus on the procedural here. is it up to congress or up to the states. that's the first question. second of all, if up to the states, did they give trump enough due process? and then there's this question that makes you nuts. is the president an officer. the reason you find that frustrating is because you have a very logical brain, which would say, of course, the president is an officer, but the

law is not always logical. there's ways to parse through other parts of the constitution that suggest perhaps the president is different from an officer of the u.s. i'm with you, but we're not wearing the black robes. >> i like the diagnosis early in the morning. thank you so much. i like this morning. let's rock and roll. also breaking this morning, a deadly strike hit a militia base in baghdad. dethe tails of the attack as fears grow. >> more than 900 pages of court filings reveal new insight and intrigue in the jeffrey epstein case. who he allegedly said likes girls young.

this morning a trove of new documents unsealed revealed details in the jeffrey epstein sex trafficking case. bill clinton and donald trump named in those documents. the secrecy captured the public interest after epstein died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial. crime correspondent shimon prokupecz reports on what's in the latest release. >> the documents released by the

court stemmed from a lawsuit that was brought back in 2015 against the former girlfriend of jeffrey epstein and was a civil lawsuit and they set is theed the case. after years, the documents have been released. and some specific and pretty important information coming from depositions that were taken by the lawyers from an associate of jeffrey epstein. a woman who used to work for him where she says jeffrey epstein told her that president bill clinton liked them young, referring to girls, and they had had a conversation about the former president. now the former president has denyied any wrong doing, and there are no accusations in the court filings of any kind of wrong doing or any kind of criminal activity on the part of the former president. a spokesperson for the former president said that as long as

he did in 209 that he denies doing anything wrong. he admits to being on jeffrey epps sustain's plane, but it's been nearly 20 years since the former president had any contact with epstein and has not been accused of any crimes or wrong doing related to epstein. and also in that same deposition from the former employee, we learned that she says, according to her deposition, that jeffrey epstein, they were on a plane together heading to new york. they couldn't land in new york, so they had to go to atlantic city. while on that plane, jeffrey epstein told her that we'll call trump and go to atlantic city. she says they wound up going to a casino. she doesn't remember what that casino was. the significance of this is we're seeing two former presidents names here being mentioned. these game names are the not

necessarily new. it's something that we expected. and then now in the coming days, we do expect to see more documents as the court and the attorneys work through some more of those filings and plan to release more information in the coming days. >> thanks to shimon prokupecz for the reporting. donald trump is not accused in the documents. they have reached out to the trump campaign for comment on this issue. new this morning a father and son in san antonio now charged in the deaths of a pregnant texas teen and her boyfriend because of what law enforcement are calling a narcotics-related deal gone bad. the 19-year-old was arrested on suspicion of capital murder. his father is charged with abuse of a corpse because he's accused of helping his son move the bodies. officials say the bodies of the

couple were found in a car last week each with a gunshot wound. the case has been listed as capital murder because of the death of an unborn child. police say more charges are pending. the calendar says iowans go first in their caucuses. but nikki haley wants to skip ahead to new hampshire. >> you know iowa starts it. you know that you correct it. you know that you continue -- >> iowans have some thoughts on that. we'll get to it in a moment. the defendant seen jumping over a desk and attacking a judge in clark county. nevada is expected to be in court today. the yuj was sentencing a man on a battery charge yesterday after she denied his request for probation. he leapt at the judge and attacked her and continued hitting her even as people tried to restrain him. the clark county court say the judge was injured and

hospitalized. he was charged with several battery counts. we'll be back with more.

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tonight gop rival rd hait rd and nikki haley make their case in iowa. with less than two weeks before the caucuses, haley says it's really new hampshire that will sway the outcome. >> we have an opportunity to get this right. i know we'll get it right. i trust you. i trust every single one of you. you know how to do this. you know iowa starts it. you know you correct it. you know you continue -- [ applause ] >> and then my sweet state of south carolina brings it home. that's what we do. that's what we do. >> it might be a little awkward when she gets back to iowa tonight for the town hall. we are live at the site of the town hall. when you talk to campaign

strategists with both the haley and desantis campaigns, what are they looking for tonight? what's resinating on the trail? >> reporter: as these canbarn sm across the early states, you're hearing a sense of urgency from their supporters to take on the former president head on. with 11 days to go, the window closing for donald trump east top rivals to make their case to republican voters before the iowa caucuses. florida governor ron desantis on the ground wednesday in iowa. >> it's great to be back in dallas county. >> trump's grip on the party will first be tested. ask former governor nikki haley deliver her pitch to voters in new hampshire. both candidates in a frantic push to emerge as the leading alternative to the gop front runner. stepping up their attacks of the former president on the campaign trail. >> i do worry -- i don't think he could get elected in this

country. >> chaos follows him. you know i'm right. chaos follows him. and we can't have a country in disarray and a world on fire and go through four more years of chaos. >> but also facing criticism from some voters that they haven't hit trump hard enough. >> i have articulated all the differences time and time again on the campaign trail. what the media wants is they want republican candidates who just kind of smear him personally and do that. that's not how i role. >> reporter: superpacs supporting them the are spending millions on the air waves ignoring trump and almost exclusively attacking each other. >> in a world of chaos, the last thing america needs is another dumpster fire. >> nikki haley, questionable judgment, dangerous with china.

>> reporter: chris christie is reject ing calls from allies to step away. a superpac supporting him releasing a new ad attacking his opponents for refusing to day care on trump. >> don't mention his name. don't criticize him. don't do anything. i can't standby and silently acquiesce to that. >> reporter: during a campaign stop wednesday, haley asked if she would support the constitution should trump pick her to serve as vice president. >> i don't play for second. i never have. i'm not going to start now. and yes, we will always follow the constitution. that's the best part about our country. we have to protect it. >> vivek ramaswamy has also spent a lot of time in iowa in recent days barn storming across the state. that's a state he's putting a lot of effort into. ron desantis has all but staked his presidential campaign here. an interesting development in

recent weeks. ron desantis came into the race with a lot of money behind him. he's been outspent in recent weeks by the haley campaign and her supportive superpac. that's something we could not have anticipated. >> thank you so much. joining us is republican strategist alice stewart, bika ray sellers. i want to start with you. at this point in a campaign, six months of spending a lot of money, doing a lot of town halls, doing a lot of ad buys, it's about to get real. if you're one of these campaign managers, what do you want out of the town halls tonight for your candidates? >> we don't need anymore mistakes or self-imposed flubs like nikki haley's civil war comments. i truly believe chris christie probably would have been out of the race by now but for nikki haley's civil war disaster. so what you don't want in these town halls is anymore

self-imposed wounds that you then have to spend the next few days cleaning up. you have to be focused on the next few days between now and king day hammering home your final stretch message making sure voters remember who you are and what you stand for, not sol mistake that you have to clean up on aisle three. >> between nikki haley's comments about iowa, and these comments from chris sununu, i feel like we're hearing a strategy from the haley campaign, but here's the new hampshire governor about his predictions. >> we know trump is going to win the caucus in iowa. that's a given. but with nikki haley coming in second place, that's going to happen. it's even more momentum and gavelization. and then having the strong second place finish was always our goal. we have that wrapped up. >> you talk about campaigning.

what are we looking at? >> you can't have a better surrogate than governor sununu. everyone realizes that donald trump is going to be the front runner in these early states the key is to come in second place. and all of these candidates are doing it with what i call the abc's of campaigning. having been in many republican primaries. a is they have articulated their message. voters understand where they are on the issues and policies and making sure they have made that quite clear. the b is they have all braved attacks. they have been at the top of the pile and made sure they push back when necessary. the c is critical. our town the halls and our debates, the c is to connect with voters. let voters know they understand what they are going through and understand what it takes to put food on the table. and also close the deal. make sure that voters understand how they can differentiate themselves from donald trump. they are doing so by showing many of them there's a generational change. there's an optimistic change. there's certainly a view point

change and certainly less chaos and drama with their candidacy ises. >> to that point, trump is up by 30 in iowa. he's back up by 30 again. he's consistently been there. jeff zeleny talked to a voter last night who made a point we have heard over and over again the last couple days, which is interesting. take a listen. >> i think he needs to go after trump. i don't see him doing it. so i don't know that he's going to be able to pull this off unless he goes after trump. that's just my belief. >> talking about ron desantis there. similar issues have been raise ed with nikki haley. why? >> what i hear again and again from voters across the country is that they want a fighter. that's what people really love about donald trump. his support comes from a mix of his policies and his personality. it's heavier, i think, on the

personality. one farmer i interviewed was telling me the number one issue for his business right now is that his ill grant workers who don't have legal status are at rusk for deportation. some of them have been picked up in raids and deported. then i asked this farmer, what do you think about donald trump. he said i love the guy. he has my vote, knowing that donald trump would never support the kind of policies that this farmer is looking for. so that much popularity and passion is going to be really hard to overcome. that's the challenge for ron desantis and nikki haley. >> stay with us. you can all watch ron desantis and nikki haley in the cnn republican presidential town halls tonight starting at 9:00 p.m. eastern. we have new information on the deadly explosion in iran and who the u.s. believes was involved as fears grow the conflict could mushroom into a wider war. and a sliver of hope in the rubble of japan's deadly earthquake three days after the magnitude 7.5 quake hit,

rescuers save a survivor trapped under a collapsed home. they use blankets to carry him out alive. still the death toll has risen to 78.

we're following breaking news out of iraq this morning. the base was struck in baghdad killing a top commander and another fighter. at this point, it's unclear what hit the base and who ordered the

strike. militias have been ramping up attacks in iraq and syria since mid-october. paula hancocks joins us. what do we know about this and how it fits into a broader instability in the region right now? >> reporter: the latest information we have from a source within the base itself is that it was a drone attack. now we have those images coming into us just now showing the aftermath of the strike itself. we're being told from within the base that one commander was killed and another fighter also killed. and this does come as we have seen a significant step up of attacks against u.s. forces in iraq and syria by these pro-iran militia. many of them based in iraq. this particular one, we understand, was in eastern baghdad. and we have seen just last month u.s. forces did carry out a retaliatory strike against one

of these pro iranian militias that were carrying out these attacks. at this point, there's no claim of responsibility. we have not been able to get any comment as to who may have carried this out. but it really does add to a number of attacks that we have seen in recent days and weeks since those hamas attacks in israel on october 7th. it does add to the concern that this could spill over into wider conflict .

>> those blasts came a day after a senior hamas leader was killed in beirut and a blast that u.s. officials tolden cnn was carried out by israel. israel has not confirmed or denied its involvement, but hamas and the militant group blamed israel the and vowed rejeng for the attack. joining us to discuss is a spokesperson for the u.s. mission to the united nations and host of oh my boworld web series. the concern right now given for months u.s. officials have been desperate ly trying to keep any type of expansion of hostilities in check, is that we're on the brink of it. is that fair? >> listen, it looks like that. when you have a warship going to the red sea, you have when expanding hostilities or blast, attacks of that kind, when you have a terrorist attack in iran, when you have attacks happening on different iranian military groups in iraq and you have the

strike that you saw in beirut, it feels like that. i can see why it seems like that. but for this to etscalate to a larger regional war would actually require a much bigger step. that's what you see is more tit for tat attacks. you see the iran-backed groups, i don't think what happened in iran was an iran-backed group. i think it's a different group, but we'll get to that. you're seeing groups purr certain attacks where they are making trouble. they are troublemakers. they are terrorists. they are trying to take advantage of an unstable situation. and provoke. and cause further instability. and they are trying to push u.s. presence out of the region. that's their goal. they are trying to -- think know they can't take on the united states. they are going to do everything they can short of igniting a larger war. so is the u.s. you can see the administration in its response only pursuing

specific targeted attacks in response to provocations in order to not spark something much wider. >> you said a nugget of something we'll get back to. who do you think could be behind some of this? >> what i saw this blast, the thirst thing i thought it was something isis would pursue. it has zero markings of something a state actor would do. they are going to pursue something it would be by a drone or by some kind of airstrike. not a terrorist attack when you have an explosion targeted at a large gathering of civilians. and to me, that looks like isis, not only for that reason, but we have seen a pattern of similar attacks pursued by isis in afghanistan whenever they see gathering of civilians at a wedding or funeral, they pursue at attacks because it maximizes the fatalities by pursuing things like that where you have groups

of individuals together, but also because isis pursued attacks in iran before in 2022. they pursued an attack against a tribe that killed 15 people. and among other attacks. so that was my first thought. >> it's important point both on the afghanistan and just reminding people the split that has long been the case and certainly exists there. let's swing become to around the first question. proportionality, which is the buzz word you hear the back and forth you're talking about. it makes sense until it doesn't. what's your concern in terms of what would trigger what would cross the line? what mistake should be made in this moment that could engulf? >> if you were to put the terrorist groups on a spectrum, if you will, some of them think like terrorist groups like hamas and isis, which means they have nothing to lose and their one goal is to pursue as much destruction as possible. and then some of them think more like as though they are between

state actors. hezbollah is very heavily armed and much more sophisticated than the other groups. they enjoy support in lebanon. there's no precedent there. they are now increasingly the controlling the financial system. and by inviting the destruction that would come from israel, they would definitely lose that support. so even though i expect a strong retaliation from hezbollah and israel in certain respects to that, i also don't see them doing something that would cause a massive war. the issue you have and to get to your question, when you have tensions this high and all these militants and terrorist groups get ting involved, you risk a miscalculation where you could have massive group of deaths of u.s. soldiers at an air base. if you have more than right now they have been injured. but what if a group of them end up kgetting killed. the susquehanna going to go more on the offensive. that could spark is things and

spiral downward. and the same would go if hezbollah did a strike in israel that caused massive damage. >> it's a very dicey time, but a helpful walk-through of the elements going on right now. thank you. now on to the border bat thal could lead to a showdown over government funding. what house speaker mike johnson is is threatening to do after his visit to the boarder. and a nightmare for owls. what 40s could mean for you a decade later. stay with us.

new this morning the justice department is now suing texas over its controversial immigration law that gives local law enforcement the authority to arrest migrants president lawsuit argues the state cannot run its own immigration system.

meanwhile, house speaker mike johnson and more than 60 lawmakers travel to eagle pass texas wednesday. they watched as a group of m migrants crossed over the river. december was the highest surge in crossings since 2000. johnson wants support for his version of border legislation and continued to criticize president biden on cnn's jake tapper. >> we can seal the border overnight. the president has the existing authority under existing federal law to do this. he refuses to do it. what we have seen here is mayhem. >> back with us is our panel. can you just give us an idea of this data on border crossings, like how high is it? >> i think it's important to remember and i always remind people border numbers are going to fluctuate. december tends to be really low because of the weather, because of the holidays.

i think it is significant that there was an increase in border crossings in december. but we really can't get too fixated on the month to month differences because they are going to change dramatically. the bigger picture is that speaker johnson's trip to the border, the newest policy changes in texas show at every level they are escalating their fight on immigration. so the question is how are the democrats going to respond. there's been very little in the way of an all ternative path forward, but made clear by democrats. so republicans are owning the conversation. and americans are concern ed about these numbers overall. they are listening to republicans because that's all that the conversation really holds at this point. >> can you give a sense of what you think the biden administration policy is at this point? we had a conversation with them early this week. they were very fixated on how

republicans were blocking what they wanted. >> so i think it's pretty clear. the two parties have set is out in ways that make it extremely clear. the republican party does nothing but take pictureses. they do gim you cans like greg abbott of fly and dehumanize and traffic individuals to cities who were led by democratic mayors. contrast that with the fact that you have kamala harris who visited the epicenter of where these um grants were coming from trying to figure out how to aleave yates the cause of the violence. one of the more important s aspects of this is adding more individuals down there to process individuals more quickly. so that we can process asylum seekers, process individuals at

the border with some speed. this has to be a bipartisan effort. mike johnson wants to go to the border and go to eagle pass and take pictures, but i don't see him calling chuck shochumer and saying, look, let's sit down and come to some solution in the best interest of the country in some bipartisan fashion. i they just want to stand on their boxes and take pictures. >> just a quick follow-up. what governor abbott has done, has it not, to some degree, worked? it feels like it's shifted with democrats willingness to accept more hardline immigration proposals. the national conversation on this issue and in polling is more elevated than it traditionally is. >> i have a problem with the word worked. they are using real live individuals. they are using real families here. putting them on planes, they

don't know where they are going. it's the definition of trafficking, somebody who is a criminal defense lawyer, but you're right in a certain sense in that democrats for a long period of time, republicans take pictures. dem democrats had had their head in the sand. it's a major issue. it's a lot like crime. we have talked about the issue of crime particularly in midterm elections and the democrats acting like it was a nonexistent issue. this is an issue. to your point, i don't know if it's working because they are using humans as pawns, but it is now on the radar for many americans. now on the radar for democrats as well. >> you hear bakari saying this is a photo op for republicans. can you give us a sense of the strategy we're looking at here from mike johnson? >> it's certainly to call attention to what is a crisis at the border. it's important to say the numbers. the numbers are speaking for themselves. 300,000 migrant encounters at the border in december. that's historic numbers.

to the issue of republicans going down there and let's hear what they have to say, but see what there is to see there. we're seeing record numbers come in. and to the issue of democrats also are recognizing this as texas governor sent many of these migrants to other cities we're seeing democratic mayors of new york, of chicago, of denver, putting up their hands says this is a problem. we need federal assistance. this could impact our city. so we're now seeing democrats on board. speaker johnson and these republicans wanted to shine a light on this problem. what they see as an unmitigated disaster by the biden administration and say it's important to revisit what we passed in hr 2 which is more funding for customs and border patrol officials. revamping the efforts to buld the wall and cutting down the numbers of release ing these migrants into this country. and they had problems with some of the biden policies of humanitarian parol and

widespread asigh lull. so i think there are good ideas on both sides. the key is both sides need to come together and have bipartisan conversations. we're seeing some progress. the goal is let's address the problem. let's work together to find a solution because the time to pay the bills is coming up. we need to get an answer. >> thank you so much. donald trump appeals to get back on the ballot. the argument his legal team is making. new revelations of the jeffrey epsteiein case. hundreds o of documentnts run sd and nanamed popowerful figurure.

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if you toss and turn in your sleep, bad news for you. another thing to keep you up at night. sleep disruptions in your 30s and 40s can have a big impact on your brain health as much as a decade later. >> meg ter ril joins us now. >> it's never good news to do a sleep study at 6:55 in the morning on a morning show. what's interesting is is they looked at people in midlife. usually they look at people in older age and the effects on cognition. this study looked at 500 participates who was an average age of 40. they were only getting about six hours of sleep per night. they looked a at their sleep duration, sleep quality and the fragmentation of their sleep,

which was measured with a risk monitor. they evaluated their cognition 11 years later using a bat are you of tests similar to how you might evaluate for alzheimer's. there wasn't association with how long or the quality of their self-reported sleep, buts there was an association with that sleep fragmentation, the number of times you might be waking up in the middle of the night. and sometimes not even realizing it. they found people with the highest sleep fragmentation had two times higher likelihood of performing poorly on cognitive tests 11 years later. while they can't prove there's a cause, that's a strong association to be aware of. >> i'm going to take issue with six hours is only six hours. that's a lot of sleep. i have a tracker that tells me when i'm awake or not. what are the best ways to measure that? >> i talked with spo different

of sleep specialists, who was saying there are sleep trackers that can give you some information. things like the fitbit, apple watch, the treatment band can give you ideas about the sleep trends, but those specifically measure sleep fragmentation. but both of them said the important thing to try to improve this is to identify any potential underlying causes. if there's something going on like sleep apnea or restless leg syndrome, you need to get treated. otherwise tips we hear about for improving sleep. >> relaxing bedtime routine is on the list. i have four kids. >> new year's resolution. work on it. >> thank you. "cnn this morning" continues right now. donald trump asking the supreme court to overturn the colorado ruling that took him off the ballot i