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Canvassers also has a problem. 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 ...

Fight within the republican party. this is not a mixed bag of a ruling. this is a ruling striking down the arizona papers please law. the republican party used to have two wings on the subject of arizona. subject of immigration, excuse me. its only within the last five years or so that the anti-immigrant side really won the fight within the republican party. the result of them winning that fight was policies like this, policies like sb 1070, and that has been gutted by a supreme court majority t...

If you were 16, if you had turned 16 when you committed the 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...

Systematic crisis in human rights is is ended and turkey turns over a new leaf same with the council of europe in straws book turkey is on the watch list of this for the council of europe it should stay on that watch list until things improve and germany can influence that where do you see the trajectory going right now given. current state of affairs and what are your hopes for the future i dont see many positive signs as great this is happened today but the sentencing of the six journalists re...

Elections from being outright bought, today, justice kennedy sided with the conservatives again. and proclaimed that montanas century old anti-corrupt practices act be overthrown. 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 ple...

Its a sentence to die behind bars. in 2010, a legal office called the equal justice initiative which is in alabama, run by a 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 h...

Must at least get a hearing on what your sentence ought to be. you must at least be allowed to argue that you should not be 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...

Argue that you should not be senanced to die in prison. no more mandatory death in prison sen nlss 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. the united states is one of few countries that has or use...

Conservatives on the court were against this ruling. chief justice john roberts all but shouting from the pages of his angry diisnt that it couldnt be cruel and unusual to sentence kids to die in america because we do it to so many of them. if you sentence 2,000 kids to die in america, thats no longer unusual, right? its freak wnlt. samuel alito was so angry he read it from the bench out loud with volume. these days, anthony kennedy sides with the conservatives on just about every, but on the is...

Which is in alabama, run by a really remarkable guy named brian stevenson, argued a case about the unconstitutionality 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 court again. we talked to him in march after he did the oral arguments in this case. what he was arguing is even if your crime is mu...