In December 2018, the female cast members of Saturday Night Live sang Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” to a giant portrait of Robert Mueller. If you don’t remember who that is in December 2023, Mueller is the former head of the FBI. In 2017, he’d been appointed as Special Counsel to investigate the possibility of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

In some ways, “Russiagate” feels like something that happened fifty or a hundred years ago. But it’s only been five years since liberals were pinning their hopes for a decisive political victory against Trump on the then-forthcoming “Mueller report.”

On Tuesday, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump is ineligible to appear on the state’s Republican primary ballot. The court’s majority reasoned that Trump is guilty of insurrection for his actions leading up to the January 6, 2021 riot when his supporters stormed the US Capitol. Thus, they said, he’s ineligible to serve as president again. The third section of the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution disqualifies those who participate in insurrections against the government from holding office in the future.