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	<title>Carmen Munir Russell-Sluchansky</title>
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		<title>Legally Speaking:  Voter ID Laws</title>
		<link>http://carmenrussell.net/blog/2011/09/18/legally-speaking-voter-id-laws/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this edition of Legally Speaking, we explore the law and the effect of state voter identification laws that are sprouting up around the country. Several Republican-controlled state governments have been pushing laws that require voters to provide a photo ID every time they vote. We talk to Avi Green, executive director of MassVote, about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legally Speaking: Citizens United and SuperPACs, 9/2/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 00:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legally Speaking: DOMA and Prop 8 Challenges, 8/26/11</title>
		<link>http://carmenrussell.net/blog/2011/08/26/legally-speaking-doma-and-prop-8-challenges-82611/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carmen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legally Speaking:  Constitutional Challenges to Health Care Law, 8/19/11</title>
		<link>http://carmenrussell.net/blog/2011/08/19/legally-speaking-constitutional-challenges-to-health-care-law-81911/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carmen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitutional Law]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[affordable care act]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[columbia university]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gillian Metzger]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legally Speaking: Big Tobacco Sues Over FDA Regs, 8/12/11</title>
		<link>http://carmenrussell.net/blog/2011/08/12/legally-speaking-big-tobacco-sues-over-fda-regs-81211/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carmen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New tobacco regulations are about to go into effect that hugely impact the industry’s ability to market their products, including making them add shockingly graphic pictures that will take up 50 percent of cigarette packages. The industry is suing and the suit recently went to a federal court of appeals and is likely to reach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legally Speaking: FBI&#8217;s Warrantless Use of GPS, 8/5/11</title>
		<link>http://carmenrussell.net/blog/2011/08/05/legally-speaking-fbis-warrantless-use-of-gps-8511/</link>
		<comments>http://carmenrussell.net/blog/2011/08/05/legally-speaking-fbis-warrantless-use-of-gps-8511/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carmen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three cases are in the news regarding the FBI&#8217;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.]]></description>
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		<title>Legally Speaking:  World Trade Center Cross Lawsuit, 7/29/11</title>
		<link>http://carmenrussell.net/blog/2011/07/29/legally-speaking-world-trade-center-cross-lawsuit-72911/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carmen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Atheists sue to take down the Ground Zero Cross. I moderate a panel with their attorney Edwin Kagin and Andrew Schlafly, a Constitutional lawyer and founder of Conservapedia.]]></description>
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		<title>Restaveks in Haiti</title>
		<link>http://carmenrussell.net/blog/2007/12/02/restaveks-in-haiti/</link>
		<comments>http://carmenrussell.net/blog/2007/12/02/restaveks-in-haiti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the summer, I went to Haiti to cover the plight of restavkes, indentured servant children. The video below was aired on PBS&#8217;s Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria. The following piece was published on MSNBC.com along with a multimedia compent. Kids forced into domestic servitude in Haiti&#8216;Restavek&#8217; system thrives as impoverished families have little choice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>En Haiti</title>
		<link>http://carmenrussell.net/blog/2007/06/01/en-haiti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I arrived to Port-au-Prince around 12:25, Friday, May 25, in the afternoon and met up with J.P., Conner, Tamara, Dr. Cadet and Dane. After waiting for Conner&#8217;s bags to show up (and they never did), we got into an &#8220;ambulance&#8221; and set off for Fond des Blancs. The ambulance is a Toyota 4&#215;4, a much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The King and I: From democracy to military dictatorship, Bhumibol stands back</title>
		<link>http://carmenrussell.net/blog/2007/04/06/the-king-and-i-from-democracy-to-military-dictatorship-bhumibol-stands-back/</link>
		<comments>http://carmenrussell.net/blog/2007/04/06/the-king-and-i-from-democracy-to-military-dictatorship-bhumibol-stands-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I originally wrote this several months ago just after the military coup in Thailand. I thought I would post it now with all the news about the Swiss guy who was arrested for defacing the king&#8217;s portraits. Working in Thailand a few years ago, I was constantly struck by the way Thai people glorify their [...]]]></description>
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