Stay updated with breaking news from Voter referendums. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
The last. november, kentucky will vote on a similar measure that rejects the right to abortion, and two blue states, california and vermont, will vote on amendments to shrine the right to abortion in their state constitutions. melissa, how important are these ballot initiatives, as states start to follow indiana s lead by passing new abortion restrictions? thanks for having me, alicia. i think it s critically important that we have these voter initiatives, voter referendums that bring the prospect of direct democracy to this issue. because as we see an indiana, when these issues are put to representative democracy, the state legislature that have become republican controlled by design, three decades of partisan gerrymandering. you see very different outcomes. what we saw in kansas is even though individuals in that red state may differ on the question of abortion and morality, they have real skepticism about the prospect of the state making such an important decision and consigning ....
Laicher that har to make the decision or voter by voter referendums and state by state. they ll kick it back down. amy, the other case, the defense of marriage case, doma, preventing the government from recognizing same-sex marriage when it s already league in other states. it seems at times the justice was atad bit annoyed this case was even before them. what are the chances the justices focus on something procedural versus something substantive? there was a procedural question when they decided to review the case. the justices asked everyone involved in it to brief the question of whether or not they had even the ability to hear this challenge to doma when the federal government wasn t defending the law anymore. the paul clement and a group of representative house republicans leaders were defending the law. the obama administration had joined the challengers to doma. there were questions about the oral arguments about the court s ability to hear the case, but ....
Short-term notes in the 70s, and i do not believe they went into bankruptcy. what did they do? because they wanted help from washington and told him to drop dead. they still got help. and talk about it repeatedly on the program. voter referendums in california the most important sector. two issues here, i think you try to avoid bankrtcy and debate point out one thing about california, why are california bonds up? a technical factor here, taxes are high and going up, so, buy municipal bonds they re triple tax and that s one of the reasons why muny bonds prices are going up, not necessarily that california is going to get its act together. you re not going to buy them, if you think the state is going to blow up. and where do you put them. treasury. and you don t lose it. and hotels, and charlie ....
shall be valid or recognized in this state. cnn political editor paul steinhauser is live in washington, d.c., this morning. boy, has this been playing out. we first heard the vice president joe biden. he says that he endorsed marriage equality and he is a roman catholic. how is this going to play out politically in washington? it puts president obama, in a way, in a bind because vice president biden and other top members of the administration has come out in favor of same-sex marriages. he does not. he supports domestic unions. but he does not support an amendment like the one in north carolina, which would prohibit rights for same-sex couples. what happens in north carolina now? this could have wide ranging impacts, and not just on same-sex couples but on male and female couples as well because it will prevent domestic partnerships in the future and any attempt at civil unions. north carolina also a battle ground state, a state that president obama won four years a ....
Jersey. chris christie is now there. these are people creating jobs in the private sector and they know business. maybe we need more business in government and say goodbye to barney frank. we need more business everywhere. mark, i hate to say this, but your comment shows a clear lack of understanding of business. here is why. you keep cash on the balance sheet in you think the ceos want to hoard cash? what do you do with cash at the end of the day? you pay tax on it. they want to get the tax the heck off the balance sheet. no, they don t. they don t know what to do with it, because the democratic administration created a roadblock, a complete roadblock of uncertainty. cheryl: maybe they re spending go back to school. cheryl: maybe they re spending money and not creating jobs and that s why we had voter referendums we had this week. ceos are rational. not going to create jobs. healthcare ....