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 States

John Dickerson for CBS News Prime Time: John Dickerson on Trump, Colorado and the 14th Amendment

Adam 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 Problem

Lawfare: Tracking Section 3 Trump Disqualification Challenges

Karoun Demirjian for The New York Times: Congress Abandons Ukraine Aid Until Next Year as Border Talks Continue

Ashley Wu for The New York Times: Why Illegal Border Crossings Are at Sustained Highs

Elizabeth Findell for The Wall Street Journal: Texas Spent Billions on Border Security. It’s Not Working

Tom Cohen and Bill Mears for CNN: Supreme Court mostly rejects Arizona immigration law; gov says ‘heart’ remains

Edgar Sandoval for The New York Times: Appellate Court Says U.S. Can’t Cut Through Texas Border Wire Along Rio Grande

Gabriela 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 Obligations

Amanda Ripley for Unraveled: How to Survive 2024

Adam Mastroianni in The New York Times: Your Brain Has Tricked You Into Thinking Everything Is Worse and for Experimental History: Things could be better

The 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 Netflix

David: Hiroaki Nakagawa and Yasushi Miyata in Internal Medicine: An Underdiagnosed Cause of an Itchy Back

Listener chatter from Michael in Queens, New York: Irin Carmon for New York Magazine: A $45 Million Effort to Make Pregnancy Less Deadly in Brooklyn

For 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. 

In the next Gabfest Reads, John talks with Christine Coulson about her new book, One Woman Show.

Email your chatters, questions, and comments to gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)

Podcast production by Cheyna Roth 

Research by Julie Huygen

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