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Canvassers also has a problem. the powerful people in michigan, a lot of the michigan press says they're okay with this. they're good with this kind of government by mutually assured conflict of interest. maybe so. i'm 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 in and out of the courts and in and out of the courts with the last ruling being that the board o...

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. it's 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 that included the ultra-conservative chief justice john roberts. john robert was on the anti-arizona...

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 that's where we were up until a couple years ago in this country. constitutionally speaking, kids cannot legally be killed by our ...

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 don't see many positive signs as great this is happened today but the sentencing of the six journalists really shows that the crisis is continuing we also have from we also have opposition politicians in p...

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