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Legal experts say a New Mexico case from last year, barring then-Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin from holding elected office, sets a precedent for the Colorado case, and Trump’s prospects to appear on the ballot around the country.

Ryan plan to end medicare as we know it. a leading republican presidential hopeful says he would sign it into law and a former vice president is gushing about paul ryan. >> i worship the ground that paul ryan walks on. >> the gop is standing by their man. tonight barney frank on the latest developments in the ryan budget relaunch. democrats strike a major blow in the fight for workers rights in wisconsin. john nichols is here with a report on todays important court ruling. >> government either t...

The only democrat at the meeting, representative peter barga objected because republicans violated the open meetings law. >> if there is any doubt -- >> no, excuse me. >> listen, it says if there is any doubt whether good cause exists the governmental body should provide 24 hours notice. this is clearly a violation of the open meetings law. youve been shutting people down. it is improper to go forward while this is a violation of the open meetings law. >> this is wrong. >> youre not allowing ame...

Meeting, representative peter barga objected because republicans violated the open meetings law. >> if there is any doubt -- >> no, excuse me. >> listen, it says if there is any doubt whether good cause exists the governmental body should provide 24 hours notice. this is clearly a violation of the open meetings law. youve been shutting people down. it is improper to go forward while this is a violation of the open meetings law. >> this is wrong. >> youre not allowing amendments and that is wrong...

Enforcing the frank/dodd law and they can get away with it, how? is everybody shrugging their shoulders in d.c. saying who cares? >> the problem is theyre an organization that tries to do the right thing so theyve opened up these rule making ideas for commentary. now theyve been buried by the comments from industry sources so they say that they have to go through all the commentary in order to write a rule. the truth is that what happens is the bottom line is it gets watered down and watered dow...

Self-fulfilling prophesies. >> these are the people in 2008 were making a debt on $200 aisle. >> you think goldman sachs is wrong in the estimate were going back up to 130, 120? >> yeah. i mean, basically this is another form of market manipulation in my view. this is another form of basically pushing the envelope. what they are saying or doing is not illegal but they are allowed to do it. the government has the responsibility to slap them hard. >> democratic senators met today with the chairman...

Justice david prossers win over joann kloppenberg earlier this week. wisconsin republicans might not wait for a supreme court ruling. the nations john nichols has learned the wisconsin legislature might take up walkers bill and try to pass it again. meanwhile, the wisconsin government accountability board cleared the way for recall elections of three senate republicans on july 12th. the recall elections will look different from any vote in the history of the badger state after governor walker si...

Very controversial act. the majority leader of the state senate scott fitzgerald has already said he is worried about it for two reasons. number one, hes worried that as he says 70,000 people will show up to protest the day he does it. thats a very real possibility. but second, hes also concerned and many republicans tell me this, about the possibility that some members of their own caucus might object because if youre facing a recall vote in july you dont really want to vote for an unpopular la...

Very controversial act. the majority leader of the state senate scott fitzgerald has already said he is worried about it for two reasons. number one, hes worried that as he says 70,000 people will show up to protest the day he does it. thats a very real possibility. but second, hes also concerned and many republicans tell me this, about the possibility that some members of their own caucus might object because if youre facing a recall vote in july you dont really want to vote for an unpopular la...

>> these are the people in 2008 were making a debt on $200 aisle. >> you think goldman sachs is wrong in the estimate were going back up to 130, 120? >> yeah. i mean, basically this is another form of market manipulation in my view. this is another form of basically pushing the envelope. what they are saying or doing is not illegal but they are allowed to do it. the government has the responsibility to slap them hard. >> democratic senators met today with the chairman of the agency charged with ...