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and yes, disney did, in their filings against the state rely on citizens united. i thought i would quote part of the complaint. i got a kick out of this. disney finds itself in this regrettable position because it expressed a viewpoint that the governor and his allies did not like. disney wishes to think it could have been solved a different way, but disney also knows that it is fortunate to have the resources to take a stand against the states retaliation, expand small businesses and individuals -- a stand smaller individuals and businesses may not have been able to take. so you know, disney is standing up for the little guy there. in america, and this is my favorite part, in america, the government cannot punish you for speaking your mind. now, that is true. i think the question is whether diddley has a mind. -- disney has a mind. whose mind are we talking about exactly? the fact that they even put that in the complaint was remarkable, and i could not help but get a little chuckle out of it because it is completely and totally absurd. disney is not a mind. in a

certainly as to the courts, frankly, this influence of dark monies and citizens united, you know, based special interest. you can write $5000000000.00 objects into politics and create this or, or of influence around the course. that's something for americans to be legitimately concerned about. they are concerned about it, they're actually angry about it. and our failure to clean it up, i think, is a really troubling failure. one that will have lasting impacts. we've got to fix that. so what are the, you know, the offer comes to this problem because, you know, i find it various and you and i both travel around the world. we see a lot of american leaders kind of preaching constantly about democracy. what it takes to build democracy, the summit, and for them about democracy, the president biden does what standing does, the united states have its own institutions and like i've been drill democracy is not voting. democracy are the institutions. but if we don't have institutions that are on corrupt, that are objective and that can, uh, you know, be governed by the rule of law, not by the rule

citizens united basically deregulated campaign finance, the united states leading to an influx of big money in our system. in a way, we had not had in a long time. and shelby county struck down the most effective part of the voting rights act, the great civil rights law passed by congress and. on those issues of democracy, i think the court's been pretty activist. there was a pretty big to citizens united, but you're right that as a general matter, it didn't rise to the level among liberals, among democrats. you had among conservatives and republican ers and i think when it comes to abortion, part of it is that people were just maybe, maybe it was hard to believe that they felt this way, but supporters of abortion rights just were surprised that it would actually happen, even though people have been saying it for a long time. it still felt like a shock when the politico leak was reported by you and your colleagues. it still felt startling to a lot of people, even though we heard it from trump and others, that this was what was going happen. you have alexis de tocqueville quote in the

citizens united basically deregulated campaign finance, the united states leading to an influx of big money in our system. in a way, we had not had in a long time. and shelby county struck down the most effective part of the voting rights act, the great civil rights law passed by congress and. on those issues of democracy, i think the court's been pretty activist. there was a pretty big to citizens united, but you're right that as a general matter, it didn't rise to the level among liberals, among democrats. you had among conservatives and republican ers and i think when it comes to abortion, part of it is that people were just maybe, maybe it was hard to believe that they felt this way, but supporters of abortion rights just were surprised that it would actually happen, even though people have been saying it for a long time. it still felt like a shock when the politico leak was reported by you and your colleagues. it still felt startling to a lot of people, even though we heard it from trump and others, that this was what was going happen. you have alexis de tocqueville quote in the

citizens united basically deregulated campaign finance, the united states leading to an influx of big money in our system. in a way, we had not had in a long time. and shelby county struck down the most effective part of the voting rights act, the great civil rights law passed by congress and. on those issues of democracy, i think the court's been pretty activist. there was a pretty big to citizens united, but you're right that as a general matter, it didn't rise to the level among liberals, among democrats. you had among conservatives and republican ers and i think when it comes to abortion, part of it is that people were just maybe, maybe it was hard to believe that they felt this way, but supporters of abortion rights just were surprised that it would actually happen, even though people have been saying it for a long time. it still felt like a shock when the politico leak was reported by you and your colleagues. it still felt startling to a lot of people, even though we heard it from trump and others, that this was what was going happen. you have alexis de tocqueville quote in the

to exclude citizens united in cases like citizens united were campaign finance cases to to indicate that speech and money are not the same thing and don't count as the same thing in constitutional in the constitutional balance which is and it's own way quite amazing. i mean who would have thought that a amending the first amendment would be the official position? it of a modern american political amending it to circumscribe. the coverage of the first amendment of political speech in terms of political ads and so forth bought it is true by money. so i i you know, this is going to be interesting because it may in fact vindicate professor caught part of at least a professor cadrington's point which is if the court goes in a conservative direction on one or two or three of these issues certainly pressures to override the court either by packing it or by amending the constitution to obviate that the court's decision will increase and i think he if that's his prediction, which i think it probably would be i think that's right as far as it goes. i although i remain skeptical that it will increa

and frankly, this influence of dark monies and citizens united, you know, based special interest. you can write $5000000000.00 objects into politics and create this or, or of influence around the course. that's something for americans to be legitimately concerned about. they are concerned about it, they're actually angry about it. and our failure to clean it up, i think, is a really challenge failure. one that will have lasting impacts. we've got to fix that. so what are the, you know, the offer comes to this problem because, you know, i find that various and you and i both travel around the world. we see a lot of american leaders kind of preaching constantly about democracy. what it takes to build democracy, the summit, and for them about democracy, the president biden does what standing does, the united states have its own institutions and like i've been drill democracy is not voting. democracy are the institutions. but if we don't have institutions that are on corrupt, that are objective and that can, uh, you know, be governed by the rule of law, not by the rule of billionaires

tomorrow, let's cover all the news of numbered citizens united by the enemy, in particular the residentsne sent a letter to australia regarding the transfer of more than 40 f18 fighter jets, according to defense post. are stored at the air base in sydney , the fighters were decommissioned around 2021 and replaced by the most modern f-35 , although the transfer may not take place soon, as it requires diplomatic and of logistical and technical cooperation between canberra, washington and kyiv, icons from sub-regions brought church relics to lviv, which the ukrainian army managed to save from the ruins of a house in bakhmut, this happened on the eve of easter, one of the laws was damaged and the soldiers restored it with their own hands, they handed over these relics to ukraine for storage at the lviv garrison church , you can look at and make mistakes near them until the end of june. further, they plan to re-present it in other cities of ukraine. well what's up now? we have the opportunity to listen to our correspondent khrystyna parubiy. she is on a business trip to the republic of poland

about the new heat wave that has swept over the different states of the united states and the restrictions it creates for american citizens. the united nations, including the image of extreme heat, which, in addition to the united states , will probably be breathing in the coming days, the air temperature will be between 23 and 48 degrees celsius in different regions. it has been reported that along with very high humidity, it has been recommended for this competition. america's meteorology has been used by children, adults and the elderly warned to stay at home and advised all people that the sun lost the post office liquid storage in dollar city in a park in the state of texas heatstroke but considering the number of casualties caused by it in the coming days according to media reports , at least 20 very dangerous and powerful incidents have been reported in europe and the united states in different regions in recent days, and at least one has been killed so far . in different regions of america, turning to the next i will say goodbye to you in the coming days of rajabi. for the next news we have in the international sp

14th amendment states that, quote, a person's born or night light in united states and subject to the jurisdiction there of our citizensy reside. seems pretty clear to me, ron. and yet he plans to, quote, force the courts and congress to finally address this failed policy. good luck with that. this and his other cruel border plans are all part of a desperate brit bid to out-maga trump. he's grasping at straws to do anything to boost is failing poll numbers. the over potential's version of drain the swamp, he wants to rein in the power of the government while expanding his own power within the federal government. he spent his entire campaign bragging about his campaign brag about insolvent promising to make america florida. that in itself is promising the impossible. does he think that all 90,000 public schools in america will follow don't say gay and banned books? or that he can drive immigrants out of the entire country? yeah, good luck, agriculture. or for some blue states to not priests protect their citizens from a deadly pandemic, or shut down its theme parks when they support pride? is that what he thinks the pre

within the republican party so he decided to fight campaign finance and became the architect of citizens unitedthe decision that took down rules on campaign-finance, opening the floodgates to unlimited campaign spending by corporations in elections. so he is a very influential man. what's interesting about him, yeah, i saw him presenting at the national right to life convention on friday. what is interesting about his speech at that convention is that he was at once trying to claim victory and say that hey this was a huge victory, we worked for 50 years, my strategy prevailed, we did a great job congratulations, but he was also really concerned because according to his numbers at least he expected to see a drop in abortions of 300,000 after the dobbs decision went into effect in the most recent survey we have from the society family planning shows that in the nine months after dobbs the number of abortions dropped to buy closer to 25,000. -- dropped by closer to 25,000. when he said the number at the convention, you could hear a pin drop in the room. people were shocked. he's really focused now

what you have now between the citizens united case and the mccain fine gold bill is parties have limited resources. billionaires create pacs. the amount of money is enormous but what the parties control is smaller. >> bill: the rnc has to explain to americans this is how you vote in 2024. >> republicans historically like to vote on election day and they now you have to be competitive from the very first day you are allowed to vote. we have to be out there getting votes in. it is interesting. democrats focus on the election. republicans focus on the campaign. huge difference. that's part of why i wrote the book. we have to get back to understand how the system works and we have to be competitive within that system. >> bill: you adapt or die, right? we put up the early voting numbers. 2020 republicans trailed democrats by ten points. better in 2022. those numbers have to change if you want to win. four, this is right now where we believe the preferences for republican voters during the primary. i think we're up to 12 candidates. donald trump at 53, ron desantis at 20. everybody else in sin

send out a signal it bounces off my belief in this country that i am a citizen of the united states of america not some nebulous global citizen somewhere, that is true. that is real that bounces back and tells me this is where i am. i work hard, i create something in the world, that is true that is real. that bounces back and tells me this is where i am. what happens when those things disappear? we send out the signals, and then nothing comes back. that is where we are today. we are lost in that wilderness. it is when the israelites escaped from the pharaoh that they were lost in the desert and say we want to go back and bend the knee to the pharaoh. we have a hole the size of god in your heart and god does not fill it, something else will instead. the same can be said of belief in a nation. this is our moment as a movement to rise up to the occasion and say this is what we actually stand for. this is what it means to be an american, to meet what does it mean to be an american? it means we believe in the ideals that set this nation into motion 250 years ago. ideals like meritocracy and

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well a constitutional amendment i mean, citizens united is a supreme decision that, interprets the constitution in a that i think is is contrary to the public interest in that it's opens up the floodgates for these vast amounts of money coming into the political system that's so so you to do a constitutional amendment and and the prospects getting that done are pretty nil. the. members are congress both houses you spend several pages talking about suggestions for members what would what are the suggestion what things should members do to become better servants of the people and think that's your point. well, i start with the proposition, which i believe that most people who run to to be in the congress have in mind trying to find a way to serve the public interests, or at least that's one of their motivations. there are a lot of others, you know, it's an ego trip. there's kinds of other reasons that people want to run for office. but. one of the motivations is they want serve the public interest and i think that, you know, each member has to sort of decide to what extent he's going to actually

what i saw the national right to life convention is leaders like james dobbs is the architect of citizens unitedng state affiliates we need to institute much water, more sweeping enforcement mechanisms like using rico laws were used to take down the mob using antitrafficking laws and to sweeten the deal, sugarcoat those enforcement restrictions by using rape and incest exceptions. that is going to be the red herring we see to try to get much more extreme enforcement decisions, to try to make these bans that are working work better. we will see this pr campaign. abortion bans -- the antiabortion movement has realized the word "ban" makes their policies less popular. we will see them being called protections or limits. we are not going to see crisis pregnancy center as much anymore because there is now a lot of robust information about how deceptive these centers are so they are rebranding them as pregnancy resource centers as well. there's a marketing campaign going on to try to make their abortion bans were popular at a time when vast majority of americans disagree with the overturning of roe v.

were supporters of this operation, and secondly, well , imagine if mexico began to mock the citizens of the unitedtates of america or the americans? that mexico has long ceased to have options . there were many for people to live peacefully in ukraine throughout ukraine, but no, the former yanukovyna and poroshenko and the current zelensky. why didn’t they use it? why didn't they use it? did they want war? no, they were simply pushed to this zero point where it was possible. and the last thing, dear friends, well , you understand, if it had not been found, uh, a year a little more than a year earlier it began tomorrow it will be in worse conditions for russia and belarus everything was going to this. the only thing, probably ours, is that we did not resolve the issue in the fourteenth fifteenth year, when there was no army in ukraine, not ready, and everything else we wanted to somehow settle peacefully. during this time they created a combat-ready armed forces. therefore, we just need calm down. i ask you just to influence the policy within the country so that we do not run away. it is very dange

so we made a citizens unit, i was arrested in the space -- several times in four years. it is that experience for me when we stood up as ordinary people and gathered ourselves and looked at our constitution and found out that it gives us the right to challenge government, it was at that point we became more emboldened to teach and train other citizens how to speak truth to power. that still remains a crime. so to see this inscription on the back, when i came here today, my first time here, i stood at the back there and read it about four times and just marveled at how intentionally you crafted this, to be able to empower the citizens of this clint to participate in their governance and hold those who are in power to account. talking about what happened in georgetown university two weeks ago, i was humbled to speak at the commencement. and just before i spoke, the students who were graduating had just protested against one of the speakers who had spoken at the event. it was a pretty awrk ward moment, as you can imagine, for them trying to -- to then try to give an inspira

his tenure, he made his trollish proclivities clear after then president obama criticized the citizens unitedng a state of the union address. >> a bush appointee to the court, justice samuel alito, did not agree and could be seen saying so, appearing to mouth the words not true, highly unusual moment in what was a vocal chamber all around last night. >> alito faced criticism for that incident. in response, he never attended the state of the union address again. after he wrote the dobbs decision overturning roe v. wade and getting rid of the constitutional right to bodily autonomy in abortion, justice alito took a victory lap, including this bizarre speech in rome, where he attacked foreign leaders for criticizing him, half jokingly suggesting that former uk prime minister boris johnson resigned because he spoke out against the ruling. we are now learning that trip, the rome trip, was paid for by the university of notre dame law school's religious liberty initiative, which has filed amicus briefs before the court as part of a larger conservative ideological project around religious liberties a

we should reconsider corporate donations. 2010, the court reconsiders corporate donations and citizens uniteds out -- >> such a good point. >> and not only that, we've now gone to the point where the favor trading that you see that governor bob mcdonald in virginia, that's okay. all of this stuff is okay through the courts own jurors periods, which is an interesting sort of conflict different than when you identify. -- i would like to go on these fancy trips. i think it's okay if this donor gives bob donald nice washes so on the actual specifics here, singer has this kind of big case a few years after this. five years after this, where he is trying to get money out of your government, right? >> >> billions of dollars. >> they basically essentially cleared it kind of bankruptcy, he is holding these kind of junk acid bonds, in court, he wins his side 7 to 1. alito joins the majority. it is two and a half a billion dollars that singer gets out of this case. >> that's right. this case litigation went on for more than a decade. it actually repeatedly went up to the supreme court, both singers hedg

run campaigns, and that was started off by the supreme court who got rid of the restrictions of citizens unitedeah, i mean you're reminding folks of the larger context both how politics works, whether these companies have too much power so they've distorted power over the very systems that should regulate them and the throwback guilded era, and i have one more piece of sound to put scrutiny on this. sometimes we report things that seem outrageous and people don't care and the world goes on. i can definitely say sometimes that's happened. other times we expose things and a lot of people who watch msnbc and sometimes it makes a difference when you actually put it in context. i want to show, again, how blatant it is. it's one thing to say wae made great product, here's the profits, and the employees get some money and the founders and investors get some money. it's another thing to say we used this for "x," we found out we can get out with "y," we're going to keep hiking price. that's just price gouging. here's a little bit more of that. >> we're still chasing demand so we haven't seen a lot of re

russia in this operation, and secondly, well, imagine if in mexico they began to mock the citizens of the united states of mexico a long time ago would no longer exist, alexander lukashenko himself repeatedly proposed a peace plan for ukraine. and the famous negotiations in minsk in the fifteenth year. and let some ex-politicians interpret them differently , but this is a fact then they managed to save lives after the start of their own, belarus offered its help as a platform for resolving the crisis, but obviously peace and negotiations for some people were absolutely not profitable options for for people to live peacefully in ukraine throughout ukraine, but not, the former yanukovych and poroshenko are there and the current green took advantage. why didn't they use it? did they want war? no, they were just pushed to this zero point where it was possible well, if it didn’t interfere, uh, a year, a little more than a year earlier it started tomorrow it is in worse conditions for russia everything was going to this. the only thing, probably ours, is that we did not resolve this issue in the fourt

citizen. i'm a united states citizen and i value my citizenship. first of all, i believe we should not have any parties, no republican party, no democratic party, no communist party, none of that. no delegate votes. why should one small group of people like delaware control such a large number of people in the electoral system? i don't believe that should be at all. i am a united states citizen. i joined the military to fight for my country. one united states citizen, one proof of citizenship, and one vote. that would be too simple. host: melvin, do you have to show an id at the polls in louisiana? caller: i believe yes. i showed my registration card, which is my id. i think we need to show a driver's license. i'm a little bit up in age. host: that's all right. minneapolis is next. clarice is on the independent line. clarice, go ahead. caller: good morning there good morning there. hello there. i'm thankful to be on. looking forward to seeing dr. west coming up. i don't really trust the system too much. as much as you can under capitalism. we shoul

citizens united is clearly a case of five corporation lawyers making it right for lawyers.es is next, republican line in san diego. caller: i'm here and i have two points that i would ask c-span2 consider adjusting. one, c-span uses a number of polls. when you get percentages you do not say how many individuals were asked to respond to the polls, how many republicans, democrats or independents. you do not say where it was actually taken, in washington, d.c. which is majority democrats, or in new york, california, idaho, wyoming. i understand you get this information from polars -- pollers, so i would ask for the opportunity to see how they get the question. number two, you're going to hear about south dakota, rhode island compared to how many you get from washington dc -- washington, d.c., new york, pennsylvania, california. give us numbers as to how those things are discriminated against as to area codes and which area code. host: i did not recite the number of folks surveyed, that is helpful information. our own poll on twitter, -- we do not disseminate by area code and h

i am a citizen of the united states america my taxes go to the united states which is supported.i-russian clips that are released with enviable regularity. he continues to convince others that he is not a traitor, but a patriot, it doesn’t matter at all where i lived, firstly , and secondly, i appeared a lot in russia, you know very well, so you and i saw the family there, gave concerts gave me more of them before they began to ban. that is , as if my even physical presence in russia was. quite like me. and also citizen of america pokrovsky insists that he creates with soul and has already written a dozen or so close to it anti-war pensions absolutely free of charge, and before that he wrote about the same number of protest songs. i am in a free country. nobody pays me, however, the impoverished pokrovsky, who is ready to work for anyone, if only they would pay for a long time, have been making up legends, for example, when crimea became part of russia, the leader of the new group brought together with pleasure gave concerts there, and for solid mountains. i wonder if he returned

it is clearly seen that this is not the first time that the united states has targeted syrian citizens. and kills them, we witnessed the killing of other civilians in the north and northeast of syria, according to the reports of the syrian state media, which have local sources in those areas, the united states is transferring equipment to the region, and the group known as the democratic forces was present there , and they they were supported by the residents of the village they ran away from their homes, they wanted to take shelter in their fields, but the american forces started firing indiscriminately and killed one civilian and wounded several others. this is not the first time that the american forces have killed civilians in syria . america is present in syria in a different way. the syrian government and the american forces in this country are considered as occupying forces. syria uses the country's natural resources such as oil, for this purpose they occupy the oil-rich region of northern syria, this has caused syria to face a fuel shortage . it is conducting these operations i

it says the group is working for a ukrainian citizen. the united nations is added russia's military and allied are in groups to the so called list of shame over violations of the rights of children during the war in ukraine. notably, the annual report to next week does not include israel or diplomatic editor of james bass explains. every year the un secretary general produces a report on the countries and i'm groups responsible for killing and maiming children. this is report has now gone to the members of the security council is not yet been published, but i've seen a copy again. the report is controversial. part of that is because of israel, which the report says, killed $52.00 children in 2022. now the 2nd general says that's a meaningful decline and he's not putting them on the blacklist. but of course if you look at the figures in 2021, the war and gaza lost it 11 days the war in august 2022. lost it just 3 days. this was the reaction to the report by the pablo. send you an ambassador. it's very unfortunate that he selected not to list him. we