Next by are joined katie keith with georgetown university, the center on Health Insurance reform. She is also an adjunct professor of law at the law school at georgetown. Thank you for joining us. Katie thank you for having me. Host here to talk about the latest Supreme Court and the most significant Supreme Court on the Affordable Care act. Give us the shorthand version of legally, how we arrived at this point. Katie to understand this case, we have to go back in time a little bit to 2012 and then 2017. If folks remember back to 2012, that was the first time the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care act. Chief Justice John Roberts held that the individual mandate could not be sustained under the commerce clause, but it could be sustained as a tax. It walks, talks, cracked like attacks. Quacks like a tax. Fastforward to 2017, republicans controlled both chambers of congress. Timespent much of their trying to repeal as much of the Affordable Care act as possible. It led to multiple h
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With the political law experts on the upcoming election and the legal implications of expanded mailin voting. At 1 00 p. M. The Aspen Institute looks at the development of the Coronavirus Vaccine, and plans for its distribution. Host we are back with david canon, Political Science professor at the university of wisconsin madison to continue our conversation on the battleground state of wisconsin. The Supreme Court decision on absentee ballots, what is your take on it . What type of voter could be impacted by this . Guest it really is an important decision to say that the ballot has to be received by election day, and anything not received by election day will not be counted. Where a District Court judge ruled you could count the ballots for three days after the election, the way that many other states allow. Partiesright now the are scrambling to get the message out that if you want to vote by mail, you better get your ballot in today or tomorrow, because the mail sometimes takes more
Every opportunity id vote every opportunity people are right. To make sure were here in time the polls open to me strong words more discount easy to cast a vote and get to live. And come out and say this we are still living doing probably one thing i love to face. Everything. Also coming up as humanity hopes and waits for a vaccine to snuff out the pandemic mans best friend is learning how to sniff out the virus as coded 19 began to spread to see was asked as an experiment to try to detect it took it 7 minutes to figure out that this is what they wanted to look for so that totally blew our minds. Our viewers watching on p. B. S. In the United States and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day as the u. S. President ial Election Campaign begins its final crescendo traditionally this final week of the campaign is when the pressure of the political race for the white house rises and rises and then election day arrives followed by the climax on Election Night when one of th