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A wealth tax. >> even if people are not particularly wealthy, they have a redistribution of wealth, all tax is taking wealth and redistributing it for the public good, sometimes paving the streets or building infrastructure. how do democrats who want to take away some of the inequalities in wealth address this in a way that might be palatable for the entire populous? >> thats a really good question. thats like a million dollar question going forward for the democratic party for the last 40 years...

Today the supreme court said we dont buy your explanation for why you wanted to ask everyone who fills out the census form whether they were a citizen. so its now back in the hands of the census bureau to come up with another explanation that satisfies the courts. but thats going to take time. thats going to take at least several months, i would think, to get a new explanation from census to get a ruling from the court of new york where this case originated from and a lawsuit by 18 states led by...

Once somebody got a punch in, everybody started to try to land the punches. if he looks strong early, i think some of the folks may redirect a little bit. there is also some advantage in attacking trump. there is advantage in attacking bernie sanders if you are one of the other democrats. so i think how biden is able to set the tone himself is going to be very important for how all this plays out. >> there is a guy whose name people are looking up a lot on google searches based on last night, ju...

Receives in the electoral college and how the federal government allocates money for housing, education, and health care. democrats said that the census question would -- asking about citizenship in the census would discourage both legal and illegal immigrants from responding, making the count inaccurate. now this would seem to be a victory for democrats, but not so fast because also today the supreme court rejected claims that partisan politics played too great a role in the way congressional d...

The court invalidates an agency action solely because it questions the sincerity of the agencys otherwise adequate rationale. thats interesting because the court did say according to pete williams who was explaining to us that you might be able to get this question onto the census if you give us a better reason for why you want to put it on. >> thats exactly right. and once again, its great, ali, that youre focusing on this dissenting language. justice thomas and the other conservative justices ...

Time. is there an intent to entrench people for purely partisan reasons? is that the effect? and finally she takes issue with the majoritys claim that, hey, the states can just deal with this bypassing nonpartisan commissions by ref renda. she says only half these states have the refrenda. so its very clear and its a powerful declaration of the fundamental principles of american government. she says they are being violated by the majority decision in this case. >> now, jeff, since ive gone here,...

Historically relevant? >> thats such a great question, ali. and we can have a whole constitutional law class on that. but the bottom line is in cases involving discrimination against minorities, the court is will being to go -- affecting economic relations, there are laws involving administrative decisions like this. generally courts are pretty deferential to executive agencies, and thats what the conservative justices said. whats significant here is the court was willing to look for evidence of...

2020 census saying there was a contrived reason behind the white house wanting that information. the courts essentially accused commerce secretary wilbur ross of deceptively claiming a citizenship question was necessary to enforce the voting rights act when there was contradictory evidence that the question was actually intended to benefit republicans. in the majority opinion, chief justice john roberts wrote, quote, accepting contrived reasons would defeat the purpose of the enterprise. if judi...

Here. >> i think there are people out there, right-minded people who say i dont get it, why shouldnt a question about citizenship be on the census? the census asks you all sorts of things. whats wrong with citizenship? >> well, lets start out with the plain language of the constitution. it says every ten years there is what we call the remuneration requirement. count the number of people in the united states. it doesnt say count the number of citizens in the united states. so we start there. the...