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Weve been following the economic unrest in venezuela and it has actually triggered protests in spain. take a look. thousands of people gathered to show their anger against nicolas maduro. protests come after venezuelas best known dissident was released from prison and granted house arrest. president maduro says he hopes the lopez decision will provide a basis for reconciliation. international pressure is believed to be one of the reasons for the release of lopez. that country is in economic and ...

Remarkable things about watching actually a supreme court argument, because sometimes i go there up and im arguing for the government, very sort of -- i mean, you would think its kind of a favored position to be arguing for the government, and it turns out its not. it turns out that the justices give you as the governments representative just as hard a time, maybe a harder time, than they give anybody else, and thats the way it should be. whether youre the government, whether youre a corporation...

In citizens united -- i get a little tired f people on the left side saying it was a terrible case, when frankly, let me make this point, in citizens united, the court listed at least 25 precedents dating back almost 75 years. heres a list of them right here. quote be generally the first amendment protects corporate speech, and specifically, that it protects corporate political speech. now, id like to split these cases in the record. on the other side of the precedential skills, a 1990 decision ...

Refocus this mission in way that convinces our enemies and our friends that that truly is what were there to accomplish, that we are going to win, we are going to get this done and protect that country and their population and make sure that we prevent that area from becoming a sanctuary where terrorist organizations can plan attacks against the united states or our allies. jon: as you well know president obama has essentially promised that there will be a draw down of troops starting in july of...

Youngstown analysis, which would be what congress has done, where congress has authorized the president, where congress has said nothing, still another, where congress has specifically barred the activity in question, youre talking about a much, much higher bar for the president to jump over in order for the action to be found constitutional. >> thank you very much. if i might, let me go on to an environmental issue in the commerce clause. and as we all know, the commerce clause is used to legis...

Im not here to be -- to beat up on president obama, i just want to make this point. and yet, -- in first national bank of boston versus balante, the supreme court held, more than 38 years ago, that quote the identities of the speaker is not decisive in determining whether speech is protected, corporations and associations contribute to the discuss, debate and dissemination of informs, ideas the first amendment seeks to foster, unquote. well, balat esm was decided two years after the landmark cas...

Area would be the youngstown analysis, which makes very important what congress has done, where congress authorizes the president, its one thing. where congress has said nothing, still another. where congress has specifically barred the activity in question, youre talking about a much, much higher bar for the the president to jump over in order for the action to be found constitutional. >> thank you very much. if i might, let me go on to an environmental issue in the commerce clause. and as we a...

Inaccurate, and thats what were establishing. when president obama criticized the citizens decision in the state of the union address with the supreme court justices sitting there, he said that it would allow foreign corporations to fund american elections. now, this has said the same thing. do you agree that this case involved an american nonprofit organization, not a foreign corporation, that this case involved independent political speech, not campaign contributions, and that the separate law...