Seth Meyers calls out Trump’s hypocrisy on Supreme Court ballot eligibility hearing

Seth Meyers reacts to the “convenient loophole” that Donald Trump’s lawyer was arguing in court for his client to stay in the presidential race – the same lawyer who also admitted in the same hearing that the insurrection was “criminal”.

During a Supreme Court oral arguments hearing on Thursday over whether Mr Trump should be allowed to stay on 2024 ballot papers based on the 14th Amendment’s insurrectionist clause, his lawyer, Jonathan Mitchell, dismissed that January 6 was an insurrection but did admit that it was a “riot” and called it “criminal.”

“We didn’t concede that it’s an effort to overthrow the government,” Mr Mitchell said during the hearing.

“This was a riot. It was not an insurrection. The events were shameful, criminal, violent, all of those things. But it did not qualify as insurrection.”

“Something tells me Trump isn’t exactly going to be thrilled with that argument,” Mr Meyers reacted. “It doesn’t really fit on a baseball cap: shameful, criminal, violent, but still eligible!”

Donald Trump’s lawyer Johnathan Mitchell called the Capitol attack ‘criminal’

The argument for Mr Trump to be removed from the election race is based on the 14th Amendment’s insurrectionist clause, which was put in place after the Civil War to stop former Confederates from entering the government.

The clause bars anyone who takes an oath to uphold the Constitution to hold any US office if they “engaged insurrection or rebellion against the same”.

Mr Mitchell wrote to the court that Mr Trump “did not lead, direct, or encourage any of the unlawful acts that occurred at the Capitol”. Despite that, he also added that the insurrection clause would not apply to him anyway as he was not “an officer of the US states” as written in the