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Again not just furious but went after the president himself on immigration changes. so its an amazing thing to see a court that is, a, says it wants to be out of the spotlight, and b, suffering from the lowest poll ratings this court has seen in a long, long time. doing things that seem to deliberately promote the idea that the partisan rift at the court is worse than its ever been. >> on the issue of the campaign finance stuff, i realize citizens united has been famous since it was decided. its...

Its weird how poorly this ruling was reported on today because its really not that complicated. the one specific part of the papers please law the court did not strike down, its not like the court upheld it as definitely constitutional. they said on that part we have to wait and see. specifically in the ruling, they said it would be improper to enjoin it before the courts had an opportunity to construe it. once its implementing we might rule on it then. maybe the reason this got misreported is b...

Its weird how poorly this ruling was reported on today because its really not that complicated. the one specific part of the papers please law the court did not strike down, its not like the court upheld it as definitely constitutional. the court just said, on that part we have to wait and see. specifically in the ruling, they said it would be improper to enjoin it before the courts had an opportunity to construe it.

Border patrols presence three-fold. so you would anticipate that they would be arresting more people. the fact of the matter is with the exception of narcotics, drug smuggling, the border is more secure now than it ever has been in the past. does that mean something to the right? not really, because they have taken the position that theyre going to cry for the rest of their life that until the border is secure, were not going to talk about reforming the system. and if you look at berlin, they bu...

Nerd, once its implemented and we see how its going, we might rule on it then. maybe the reason this got misreported is because if you liked arizonas anti-immigrant law and didnt want to see it struck down, you might not have made it that far in the ruling. because to make it that far in the ruling, you would have to get through the little love song to immigrants the justices wrote in the paragraph right above that. sometimes the supreme court is petulant and whiny, sometimes its impane trabl an...

The powerful people in michigan, a lot of the michigan press says theyre okay with this. theyre good with this kind of government by mutually assured conflict of interest. maybe so. im not so sure whether the citizens of michigan are all that good with it. on april 26th, the board of canvassers deadlocked on party lines, throwing the petitions out, saying there will be no referendum on the ballot for that controversial michigan law. since then, this thing has been in and out of the courts and in...

Crime, if you were 16 and one day, after that ruling in 1988, it was still okay to kill you for that crime, but if you were less than 16, that was the line that was drawn there, 1988. 17 years after that in 2005, was when the supreme court said, actually, no, the cut-off now is 18 years old. you cannot kill teenagers in america as punishment for crimes they committed before they were old enough to vote. so thats where we were up until a couple years ago in this country. constitutionally speaking...

Practices act be overthrown. citizens united stands, not only at the federal level but at the state level. theres no bull work against that decision. both of these decisions today, the montana decision and the sentencing kids to die in prison ruling, were frankly overshadowed by the ruling that mostly struck down arizonas antis immigrant papers please law. but even these overlooked decisions today, the montana decision and the killing kids in prison decision today, even those ones, even those we...

Theyre good with this kind of government by mutually assured conflict of interest. maybe so. im not so sure whether the citizens of michigan are all that good with it. on april 26th, the board of canvassers deadlocked on party lines, throwing the petitions out, saying there will be no referendum on the ballot for that controversial michigan law. since then, this thing has been in and out of the courts and in and out of the courts with the last ruling being that the board of canvassers actually h...

They considered four parts of the law. three of them they struck down. and the fourth part they said, well, well wait and see. its weird how poorly this ruling was reported on today because its really not that complicated. the one specific part of the papers please law the court did not strike down, its not like the court upheld it as definitely constitutional. the court just said, on that part we have to wait and see. specifically in the ruling, they said it would be improper to enjoin it befor...