mozart interview there were we're out of time but a really great to have you on the show that was carl mayer an attorney with the mayor and law group represents the plaintiffs in this case they give us well thank you for having me on oh poverty continues to plague america as poverty rates remain stuck at record levels this reality confirmed by a census bureau report released yesterday it shows fifteen percent of the u.s. population lives in poverty more than forty six million americans live below the poverty line and one in five children live in poverty while the poverty rate is stuck out what it was the year before so it didn't get worse but it didn't get better it remains historically high meanwhile the income inequality gap is growing this is based on the getting index which measures household income inequality it ranges from zero which means total equality to one hundred which represents total inequality in two thousand and eleven it reached a record high of forty seven point seven percent. well earlier i spoke to a duo very outspoken about these issues we also dove into other pressing t

lawyers carl mayer. went through the state department terrorism list and there were seventeen different organizations on that list that i had been with as foreign correspondent judge forrest concurred that this was a gross. violation of basic constitutional rights to the courts and to legal representation in the final hearing in the first week of august she brought up the one hundred ten thousand japanese americans who had been held in detention camps in world war two in similar circumstances and she struck down this provision it's a fascinating one hundred twenty two page ruling which is quite strident in terms of its condemnation. the government the executive branch's destruction of the separation of powers it's really quite remarkable to differ. we know the bomb an obama administration will appeal they already have the per the temporary drunken which judge forrest passed until the final ruling which turns out to be this permanent injunction so they have sixty days to appeal this ruling that will take

is unconstitutional and fear they could be indefinitely detained under it for more carl mayer attorney for the merilahti group who has representing the plaintiffs in this case joins me now carl nice to see you so first off thanks as well thanks for having me back first off want to get your reaction to the move made up by the court of appeal yesterday sure well actually it's more of a minor blip in a road in the road a minor bump in the road rather than a major development what happened was the court issued in the ministry of stay which just means that they are protecting the status quo ante prior to a full hearing on whether there should be a stay pending appeal so and that will occur next week sometime and the full merits of this case will be decided probably in the next couple months after both sides have an opportunity to brief the second circuit court of appeals which is the last stop before the u.s. supreme court so bottom line is it wasn't a real ruling on the merits so it's not it's not a huge development we obviously would have preferred if the court didn't put a stay on judge