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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 there's that. as we await the supreme court's 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. she's senior editor and legal correspondent. she watched today's proceedings at the supreme court. great to have you here. t...

Citizens united stands, not only at the federal level but at the state level. there's 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 arizona's anti's immigrant papers please law. we're 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 today, even those ones, even those were overlooked today, they even got a heck of a lot more attent...

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 they're going to do next. joining us now for the interview is pima county arizona sheriff clarence dupnik, thank you for being here. i know this is a busy time for you. >> my pleasure. >> as she...

Petulant and whiny, sometimes it's 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 nation's 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 swear a common oath to renounce fidelity to foreign princes, to defend their country by law. the histo...

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 murder, if you commit that crime when you are a kid, the government should not be able to sentence you to...