Way, offered our Founding Fathers critical insight into how a government for and by the people ought to be held accountable. In their wisdom gained by experience, our founders specifically guaranteed the right of people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unwarranted search and seizures. Our Founding Fathers were not simple man and they were certainly not ignorant or naive. And they understood that the challenges that we would have to face as a free nation, as a free state. They understood well though that without security there is no liberty, and without liberty there is no security. To strike the delicate balance between liberty and security they instituted the constitution and bill of rights as the foundation for this new experiment in selfgovernance with a maximum liberty being held to the highest ideals. Highest ideals. Today we find ourselves in a fight of Epic Proportions as it relates to our individual liberties and their preservation. Day after da
Wear a big jacket, we need more of this to replace the water lost in the reservoirs over the last summer. Brian hackney joining us. Doesnt, like, well get rain or snow soon . Dont forget what they said this time last year the snowpack looked good and shut off . Thi year it can go the other direction. No indication of it yet. Its no surprise by the way that the snowpack is 20 of average and so are our rainfall totals in the bay area. Its about a fifth of normal. Santa rosa even worse. The bad news in the short term is that that High Pressure thats been so persistent over the west coast will hang in for the next six days but next wednesday and thursday a little low pressure will knock a dent in the high offshore. It may bring some rain to far Northern California. So for the first time we are talking about a change in the latter half of next week. We are gathering new information about the breaking news in san jose where police say an officer shot a man involved in a fight. Officers were
It is sunday, january 5th, i am mike mibach. I am claudine wong. We will check your weather with Rosemary Orozco rosemary. It makes you feel guilty for the fans over in green bay today. Yes, they have very, very cold temperatures to deal with here at home. Our temperatures remain above the seasonal average. Broke five records yesterday and will get close today, perhaps breaking a record. This morning, breezy in the hills. That is impacting the temperatures for some areas. Waking up in the 50s. Others waking up in the 20s. I will show you who you are. Which one you are as we get into the extended forecast. And possibility of scattered showers and coming up today. Wild card weekend is underway and the San Francisco 49ers and their fans ready to roll. This could be one of the coldest nfl games every played. Temperatures at Lambeau Field will be at below zero. They have pockets that stay warm for hours. They will be giving out hot coffee and hot chocolate. Many who made the road trip are b
Ranging from buckley very chalet hoe, to Citizens United to the recent mcchurch con case, have reheat repeatedly argued disclosure advances Public Interest and the court rejected the arguments put forward by senator mcconnell and justice thomas. The courts have put forward three main arguments in favor of disclosure. One, the Public Interest in knowing who is spending money to try to influence their votes. Two, that transparency serves an important anticorruption interest, and, three, that disclosure helps to enforce other Campaign Finance laws like the prohibition on foreigners or foreign owned corporations spending money in u. S. Elections. Heres what the sprem court said in buckley with respect to disclosure of both direct contributions to campaigns and independent expenditures. I quote Disclosure Requirements deter actual corruption and avoid the appearance of corruption by exposing large contributions and expenditures to the light of publicity. A public armed with information abou
Contributions to the naacp infringed on the right of Free Association because it exposed those individuals to physical severe threats and retribution. The court in the naacp case put for district test for groups seeking to avoid disclosure. And in the later 1976 buckley decision the court rejected a challenge to Disclosure Requirements based on the earlier naacp case. The Buckley Court found that the strict tests for avoiding disclosure in naacp did not void the Campaign Finance Disclosure Requirements that they upheld in buckley and the Buckley Court did say that a group could seek an exemption from the Disclosure Requirements if it they could demonstrate as the naacp did in the alabama case that would be subject to an actual not speculative verdon on the freedom of association. And in fact the fec has determined that the socialist Workers Party which they found based on history of violence harassment and threats to quote has met that task and exempted them from current Disclosure Req