This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to block Donald Trump from the ballot, the new Texas law to allow state and local authorities to arrest immigrants, and guest Amanda Ripley’s suggestions to survive 2024. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:Colorado Supreme Court’s opinion in Anderson, et al. v. Griswold, et al.Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United StatesJohn Dickerson for CBS News Prime Time: John Dickerson on Trump, Colorado and the 14th AmendmentAdam Unikowsky for Adam’s Legal Newsletter: Is the Supreme Court seriously going to disqualify Trump?Mark A. Graber in The New York Times: Donald Trump and the Jefferson Davis ProblemLawfare: Tracking Section 3 Trump Disqualification ChallengesKaroun Demirjian for The New York Times: Congress Abandons Ukraine Aid Until Next Year as Border Talks ContinueAshley Wu for The New York Times: Why Illegal Border Crossings Are at Sustained HighsElizabeth Findell for The Wall Street Journal: Texas Spent Billions on Border Security. It’s Not WorkingTom Cohen and Bill Mears for CNN: Supreme Court mostly rejects Arizona immigration law; gov says ‘heart’ remainsEdgar Sandoval for The New York Times: Appellate Court Says U.S. Can’t Cut Through Texas Border Wire Along Rio GrandeGabriela Baczynska for Reuters: What’s in the new EU migration and asylum deal?Karen Musalo for Just Security: Biden’s Embrace of Trump’s Transit Ban Violates US Legal and Moral Refugee ObligationsAmanda Ripley for Unraveled: How to Survive 2024Adam Mastroianni in The New York Times: Your Brain Has Tricked You Into Thinking Everything Is Worse and for Experimental History: Things could be betterThe Economist: What psychology experiments tell you about why people deny facts

Here are this week’s chatters:John: Jason Bittel for National Geographic: A bonobo was separated from her sister for 26 years. She still remembers her.Emily: May December on NetflixDavid: Hiroaki Nakagawa and Yasushi Miyata in Internal Medicine: An Underdiagnosed Cause of an Itchy BackListener chatter from Michael in Queens, New York: Irin Carmon for New York Magazine: A $45 Million Effort to Make Pregnancy Less Deadly in BrooklynFor this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, Amanda joins David, John, and Emily to talk about their holiday plans, which include To Asia, With Love: Everyday Asian Recipes and Stories From the Heart by Hetty McKinnon, the DC Public Library, Purlie Victorious, the National Zoo, and Sara Lee’s Butter Streusel Coffee Cake. 

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