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Every level of american democracy. until we amend the u.s. constitution as a way of overturning this ruling or conceivably, i guess, until we get a new supreme court. s substan substantially reconstituted. it will be harder for state governments to kill american children now, so theres that. as we await the supreme courts health care ruling on thursday, this week, on a day like this, we need advice and guidance from somebody who knows these things so we turn to dahlia. shes senior editor and leg...

Citizens united stands, not only at the federal level but at the state level. theres no bullwark 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. were going to be talking about that a bit later on in the show. but even these overlooked decisions today, the montana decision and the killing kids in prison decision tod...

Fight was policies like this, policies like sb 1070, and that has been gutted by a supreme court majority that included the ultra-conservative chief justice john roberts. john robert was on the anti-arizona side of the ruling. arizona has been a guinea pig on this issue for national republican politics for a long time now. now the people in charge of enforcing the law in arizona have to figure out what theyre going to do next. joining us now for the interview is pima county arizona sheriff clare...

Petulant and whiny, sometimes its impane trabl and boring, and sometimes they write a little poetry. this is from the very end of the ruling today. quote, on may 24th 2012 at one of this nations most distinguishes museums of history, a dozen immigrants stood before the tattered flag that inspired francis scott key to write the national anthem. there they took the oath to becomes citizens. these ceremonies bring together men and women of different origins who now share a common destiny. they swea...

Really remarkable guy named brian stevenson, argued a case about the constitutionality about sentencing american kids to die in prison. the outcome of the case was a ruling that said a kid could not be sentenced to die in prison unless he had committed murder. this year, 2012, equal justice initiative and brian stevenson went back to the supreme court again. we talked to him in march after he did the oral arguments in this case. what he was arguing this time around is even if your crime is murde...

Law that the supreme court decisions. on three, it struck them down entirely. on the fourth one, on the part where arizona police officers are dreblthed by this new state law to demand to see your immigration papers if they stop you for something else, the court did not green light that and say thats firmly constitutional. the court just said they cant strike that part of it down now because it hasnt been implemented yet and overtly held the door open to reconsidering the constitutionality of th...

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 getting more and more famous with each passing day in american politics as we see its impact. its interesting to s...

Both sides getting something. despite spin to that effect from the right, that is not at all what this ruling was. there are four provisions of this law that the supreme court decisions. on three, it struck them down entirely. on the fourth one, on the part where arizona police officers are directed by this new state law to demand to see your immigration papers if they stop you for something else, the court did not green light that and say thats firmly constitutional. the court just said they ca...

That has been gutted by a supreme court majority that included john roberts. john robert was on the antiarizona side of the ruling. arizona has been a guinea pig on this issue for national republican politics for a long time now. now the people in charge of enforcing the law in arizona have to figure out what theyre going to do next. joining us now for the interview is pima county arizona sheriff clarence dupenick, thank you for being here. i know this is a busy time for you. >> my pleasure. >> ...

Sentenced to die in prison. no more mandatory death in prison sentences for people who commit crimes when theyre kids. there are about 2,500 people in the united states who were sentenced to die in prison for something they did as a child. by virtue of todays ruling, those people will now get hearings on whether or not they ought to die in prison or get some lesser sentence thats offers them a chance to get out, ever. the united states is one of few countries that has or uses the death penalty f...