on citizens united in one of the most destructive rulings ever for the country. montana governor brian schweitzer and e.j. dionne are here with reaction. and it turns out republicans love obama care. as long as you don t call it that. former insurance executive wendell potter on what it means if the individual mandate dies and the rest of the affordable care act lives. good to have you with us. thanks for watching. right wingers can no longer hide behind states rights when it comes to creating radical immigration laws. a ruling from the highest court in the land proves states can only go so far. the supreme court ruled 5-3 in favor of striking down most of the provisions in arizona s controversial immigration law. senate bill 1070, the ruling says states cannot override federal laws on immigration. here s what was struck down. arizona cannot make it a
a policy that has nothing to do with the arizona case. the president said at a news conference that the new program is the right thing to do in light of congress failure to pass the administration s proposed revision of the immigration act. perhaps it is, though, arizona may not think so. as salon.com describes it, it s a passage written by a man who obviously no longer cares that he sounds increasingly like a right wing talk radio host rather than a justice of the so it s no surprise that none other than rush limbaugh jumped to scalia s defense earlier. scalia is so right on the money on this. it boggles the mind. all arizona did was write law that mirrors federal law that obama was not enforcing. and court told them today they can t do that. it is, it s disheartening. let s bring in joan walsh of salon.com, michael medved, and author and torn attorney catherine crier. where do i start? what happens to balls and strikes. katherine crier, we ll ask you.
person becoming ill. 80% of republicans support creating an insurance pool and insurance exchanges. 57% of republicans support providing subsidies on a sliding scale to help individuals in families who cannot afford health insurance. the supreme court has three basic choices. number one, uphold the law, strike down the individual mandate, strike down the entire law. those are the three options. but even if the supreme court strikes down just the individual mandate, it basically guts the health care law. without the mandate, there is no way to pay for the most popular provision that all americans should be covered regardless of pre-existing conditions. i m joined by wendell potter former communications director and vice president of cigna, now integrity and author of the book deadly spin. good to have you with us tonight. those really are the three basic choices that are available here to the court.
don t even think about trying to do anything different than what we got on the federal level. and the voice of the people is gone. what do you think? no, i think it s very dangerous. i was hoping as justices briar and ginsburg were, they might use this to put limits on s citizens united or give states rights. the conservatives talk all the tie about how much they care about citizens rights. these are corporate rights, yes, state rights, no. you talk about elitism, governor schweitzer made this point. you have legal theorists telling a state that has had a work that worked for 100 years they have to cast it aside because it doesn t fit with their theories. i mean, that s a terrible idea. and it s totally against conservative principles, conservatives are supposed to rely on practical local experience. this is a radical court doing a radical thing. radical court for sure.
who knows? anything could happen. there s a lot of speculation now that the chief justice roberts today when he was announcing these decisions said we will have the rest of the decisions that are ready. which may be an implication they re going to punt and delay this health care decision until after the election. wow. that would be a big move. it would be a huge move, and very unusual, and by the way, it would leave the country in the lurch because there are a lot of provisions of obama care that are supposed to come into play before they they would render their decision. it would be good because health care is working. it gets more popular. we re talking way down the pipe, but i think that playing it, playing with this decision is a political football, a politicizing of the court. they need to get the decision out thursday and let s move on. i agree with you. there s no doubt that would be better for the country. better for the court, and let s