Today is Nov. 13, 2023, and here’s what you need to know:

While the proceedings in Colorado and a related case in Minnesota were unfolding earlier this month, Prof. Andrea Katz participated in a conference with other legal scholars about the history of Section 3 and its potential applicability to Trump. In this Q&A, she spoke to Colorado Politics about the numerous issues surrounding the fundamental question of disqualification. Here’s an excerpt: 

Colorado Politics: Compared to some of the massive shifts in constitutional interpretation recently – the U.S. Supreme Court’s gun rights and abortion rights decisions, for example – how important is this question of the 14th Amendment’s disqualification provision and its applicability to a former president?

Andrea Katz: It might or might not be important. Unlike Bruen and Dobbs, the court’s gun and abortion decisions, it’s still really unclear what path this Section 3 litigation will take. Although there are several states currently considering challenges to Trump’s eligibility to be on the ballot in 2024, we don’t know whether any of them will succeed. If the plaintiffs don’t prevail in any of these states, the Supreme Court almost certainly won’t have an opportunity to consider the issue.

Former Colorado Lt. Gov. Jane Norton on Friday endorsed fellow Republican Deborah Flora in the GOP primary for the 4th Congressional District seat held by U.S. Rep. Ken Buck, who announced last week that he isn’t running for reelection.

Calling Flora “a principled leader who won’t back down from a fight,” Norton said in a statement that the nonprofit leader and former talk radio host has what it takes to represent the district.

“Colorado’s 4th Congressional District deserves a representative who will work toward solutions to the issues hurting Colorado families,” Norton said. “Over the years, I have come to appreciate the courage of Deborah’s convictions and I know she will fight tirelessly to secure our border, get our broken economy back on track, and stand up for parental rights.”

Colorado’s second-highest court last week ruled that the state must disclose general details about child abuse reports at group living facilities in response to an open records request, provided no identifying information is included.

By 2-1, a panel of the Court of Appeals concluded the law generally shielding child abuse and neglect reports from disclosure is ambiguous. Confidentiality applies to the reports themselves, as well as the “name and address of any child, family, or informant,” plus other identifying information.

The Colorado Department of Human Services argued that addresses are always confidential, while 9News and the Colorado Sun countered it was not categorically an infringement on confidentiality to know the number of reports stemming from a particular address, without identifying anyone associated with each report.

The court’s majority agreed with the news outlets.

Republican presidential candidate Tim Scott abruptly announced late Sunday that he was dropping out of the 2024 race, a development that surprised his donors and stunned his campaign staff just two months before the start of voting in Iowa’s leadoff GOP caucuses.

The South Carolina senator, who entered the race in May with high hopes, made the surprise announcement on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Night in America” with Trey Gowdy, one of his closest friends. The news was so unanticipated that one campaign worker told The Associated Press that campaign staff found out Scott was dropping out by watching the show.

“I love America more today than I did on May 22,” Scott said Sunday. “But when I go back to Iowa, it will not be as a presidential candidate. I am suspending my campaign. I think the voters who are the most remarkable people on the planet have been really clear that they’re telling me, ‘Not now, Tim.'”

Donald Trump Jr. returned to the stand Monday as defense lawyers started calling witnesses in the New York civil fraud trial that threatens his father’s real estate empire.

Donald Trump’s eldest son returned two weeks after state lawyers quizzed him during a longstretch of the trial that also featured testimony from the former president and Don Jr.’s siblings Eric and Ivanka Trump.

“You thought you were rid of me, your honor,” he quipped as he took the stand.

Trump Jr., a Trump Organization executive vice president, originally testified on Nov. 1 and 2. He said he never worked on the annual financial statements at the heart of New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit. He said he relied on the company’s longtime finance chief and outside accountants to verify their accuracy.