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The California General Corporation law purports to govern foreign corporations in a number of respects. One such provision is Section 208 of the Corporations Code which applies contracts and real property situated in California.

Garland justice department is doing its best with the tools it has, like section 2 of the voting rights act, but it does feel like theyre trying to slay a dragon using foam swords, because they really do need legislation and there are a million issues, nicole. i understand that the biden administration has to deal with right now, but the voting rights discourse is more than just, like, some other concern that should be thrown on the pile. its an existential issue and the administrations got to v...

Sophisticated lawsuit, nicole. it kind of represents the justice department at its best when using its career lawyers to really go into detail about what this texas law does and then go into detail about the united states code. so, it challenges things like, in texas, the new law prohibits, you know, if someone has minor clerical errors, for example, in their vote, it basically throws that vote out, and what the justice department says is, well, theres actually this fairly obscure law from 1964,...

Facilitates giving people assistance in the -- in voting if theyre disabled or something like that. and this texas law obviously, as you were saying before, actually criminalizes some of that assistance. and so its a real flat violation of democratic principles and the lawsuit is done incredibly well. >> how long will it take? >> it could take a long time. voting rights cases take a long time, and this is why the provision that is on the floor of the congress right now to restore section 5 of th...

Way, there are two other volumes that interpret sections in the u.s. attorneys manual. it is called the criminal resources manual. one of the goals the justice department says was to try to trim this thing down. every successive justice department keeps adding stuff to it. the justice departments view was, its becoming so vague, a lot of these sections, they say. theyre nearly stating things that are obvious. constitutional values. that is their explanation for why this section called "need for ...

International protocols on refugee. we also have our own law, the immigration and nationality act, section 208, and other sections, which require us to consider asylum claims. this is not, as jeff sessions, the attorney general, puts it, this is not about skirting the law. this is about applying the law. this is about following the rule of law. >> sessions says those people on the left side of your screen, sessions had said, and im quoting, that this is a deliberate attempt to undermine our laws...