Intheir decision last year in Citizens United v. FEC, the United States Supreme Court said that the government could not restrict how much money corporations and other entities spend on political activities such as airing advertisements. The result has been the rise of the so-called SuperPAC which is already having a significant impact on the [...]
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Legally Speaking: DOMA and Prop 8 Challenges, 8/26/11
The Defense of Marriage Act is being challenged in two federal court cases. Meanwhile, Proposition 8 is under attack in California in Perry v. Schwarzenegger (now Brown). Legal experts expect that, at some point in the not-too-distant future, one of these cases will land at the United States Supreme Court. Joining us for this discussion [...]
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There are roughly a couple dozen constitutional challenges to the Affordable Care Act, the so-called Obamacare, that Congress passed and President Obama signed in 2009. These challenges primarily focus on the insurance mandate, a provision in the bill that requires those who can afford it to buy insurance. There are several arguments against the bill [...]
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Three cases are in the news regarding the FBI’s warrantless use of GPS devices. I talk with Zahra Billoo of CAIR, Kent Scheidegger of CJLF and Shahid Buttar of Bill of Rights Defense Committee about warrantless searches and the exclusionary rule.
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