Page 33 - State Interest News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Make plans to leave massachusetts and leave the united states, or some who are stranded and stuck abroad. i've talked to university presidents, heads of our major teaching hospitals, heads of our major tech companies in massachusetts, who are dealing with a situation of total chaos because they actually can't get their students, research fellows, employees, back into this country and then they've got another group who just are left without any real way to make plans. tremendous uncertainty. that's a real impact on a state. that's the federal government messing with a state interest. and that a...

If there is one group of people that should be psyched about china's growth, it is basically america's farmers, if i'm be mistaken. >> any of these people who were governors or senators will have a specific state interest. and very often, that is in trade. you will see the cognitive dissonance between them acting as governors and acting now as candidates. but you know, if you're going to represent the united states, then you do have to deal with a whole other host of problems and china is an increasingly difficult country for the united states. it is important to recognize at this stage of the...

Way. so do you call this a coincidence of timing? maybe you can. but it feels very transactional to us, even though the administration is denying that. >> steve, for those who aren't familiar with his case. what did he do? >> for money he was paid he spied on american nuclear weapon secrets and passed on that -- a lot of that material to israel. it was one of these cases where those that have gone back and looked at it said this was not someone who was just spying for israel's state interest, he was basically transacting in secrets for financial gain. that's what i guess the cynics like myself...

Were under this tremendous pressure from businesses and the ncaa and so forth. they got carpet bombed. and the thing is, this pushed aside the legal context in which this took place. their law was a duplicate as 19 other states have done of the religious restoration act which set up a balancing act between a compelling state interest, say to bar discrimination, versus an individual who feels substantially burdened by these things, and a judge would supposedly decide these things. as to the private interests, four appellate courts decided that private interests were covered. but the federal sta...

Needed to clarify it? >> because they were under this tremendous pressure from businesses and the ncaa and so forth. i mean, they got carpet bombed and the thing is, pushed aside the legal context in which all of this took place. their law was simply a duplicate as 19 other states have done of the religious freedom act of 1993 passed by 97-3 which set up compelling state interest, say to bar discrimination versus an individual who feels substantially burdened by these things and a judge was to decide these sort of things. as to the private interest four appellate courts decided they were cover...