the law passes. most experts have said that. we seal what the supreme court will apply the traditional historical precedent or do something more political. i think the court has a lot more at stake than president obama does. when it comes to this, republicans on one hand, can you criticize the president for criticizing the court when it is a favorite talking point of a lot of conservatives? it is a favorite talking point of a lot of conservatives. what the president did was pretty unusual. he walked it back yesterday, which signals to me that he thought he went too far. if you rule this unconstitutional, i am going to hammer you. it is pretty unusual that such a big bill is sitting at the door steps of the court anyway. ron klain, sara fegan. when you leave congress, the
if a new be law passes, you d better make sure you don t smell. we re talking stink! fight over state employees fragrances making it all the way to the house of representatives there. experts say the scents could be making people sick. trace gallagher live in l.a. trace? reporter: other states have tried these o tiff rouse bans before, megyn, but nothing ever got out of the gates. the best we could find was that detroit has some bans in certain city buildings on heavy perfumes megyn: any scented fragrances, i think n. detroit you ve got an issue if you have stinky hair spray. reporter: in some public buildings. they couldn t get them in all, but you re right. this case, this is any state employee that comes in contact with the public cannot wear any fragrances and cannot even wear scented products which is deodorant, that kind of stuff, or heavy shampoos. they re kind of acting on the advice of doctors saying they can trigger asthma or sneezing
securities market, but this kind of thing is a whole different animal. i presume the not even covered under the stock act, right? no, it s not. it s a whole different animal. i mean, this is clearly they re doing something that would make it much more transparent when it comes to their activities in the stock market, it would make it explicit in terms of if they re doing something on capitol hill and they have intimate knowledge about it and the public doesn t know, if they trade on it now, if this law passes, it would address that, but it doesn t really get into what we re looking at and what we re looking at in today s story and in tomorrow s story, which is going to look at earmarks that go to organizations where relatives work. it doesn t get into that at all, it doesn t cover it, it doesn t increase transparency, it incidental doesn t ban it in any way. jon: who are the biggest offenders? well, i think you d have to read the story so that
the heart of that better life. the reality is, rachel, we re active in 1,200 communities across this country. we very much recognize that in this century, the battles are really about laws, about passing laws, enacting laws, defeating laws. you know, in the last century, it was about actually going into court and arguing. now it s about really getting into the street, doing the hand-to-hand combat that s required to make sure that the right law passes, the wrong law gets defeated. that s why it was so important that before we defeated issue 2, we kept that crazy voter i.d. bill to the 2012 ballot. that was going to go into effect before that. quite frankly, this victory would not have been possible if it had. why do you think it couldn t have passed had it been on the ballot in 2012? what would have been the difference there, ben? look at a state like wisconsin. they passed their voter i.d. bill and right away, one-half of blacks, one-half of latinos, a similar portion of students,
union rights issue in ohio? why is this a national issue for you and for your group? look, you know, when you look at the black community in ohio, disproportionately black men, for instance, one of the demographics in this country, probably the demographic that has the hardest time finding a job, yet alone a good job, disproportionately those jobs are union jobs, are public sector jobs. people came up from the south to ohio for a better life. and this bill was aimed right at the heart of that better life. the reality is, rachel, we re active in 1,200 communities across this country. we very much recognize that in this century, the battles are really about laws, about passing laws, enacting laws, defeating laws. you know, in the last century, it was about actually going into court and arguing. now it s about really getting into the street, doing the hand-to-hand combat that s required to make sure that the right law passes, the wrong law gets defeated.