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Students, Environmental Leaders Ask Attorney General To Investigate Boston College's Fossil Fuel Holdings

By Jesse Remedios
A coalition of local political leaders, Massachusetts environmental organizations and Boston College alumni filed a complaint December 15 with Massachusetts Attorney General Healy alleging the university s fossil fuel investments violate state law.
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The complainants argue that, as managers of a non-profit educational institution, Boston College s trustees are bound by state law to promote the well-being of students and advance the school s mission of building a just society, according to a copy of the complaint obtained by BU News Service. But investing in the fossil fuel industry, they say, damages the world s natural systems, harms vulnerable communities and imperils the university s financial and physical well-being. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190710:00:36:00

Arguments in the last go-around when we were fighting about the affordable care act. this is another set of arguments that no principled legal observer has on the left or right has taken seriously, has said yes, these arguments have merit. so it was really a surprise to see the two republican appointed judges on the court today really seem to embrace an argument that almost everybody would have put well beyond the pale. so i think attorney general healey is right. i think this is likely headed to the supreme court. we ll have to see if they bite on a case that is frankly much stupider than the previous two court challenges they ve heard. well, what s your plan, attorney general, about how this goes forward? well, to win the case. we were in court today. i m not going to read anything into the questions asked by the judges. we ll await a ruling. but i can assure you this, chris. we will be there to fight to make sure that americans have access to the health care that i think they re ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190710:07:37:00

Seem to embrace an argument that almost everybody would have put well beyond the pale. so i think attorney general healey is right. i think this is likely headed to the supreme court. we ll have to see if they bite on a case that is frankly much stupider than the previous two court challenges they ve heard. well, what s your plan, attorney general, about how this goes forward? well, to win the case. we were in court today. i m not going to read anything into the questions asked by the judges. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190710:07:32:00

Chaos. it s worth highlighting the extraordinary steps taken here by donald trump and his department of justice which not only in a very rare move opted not to defend obama care in the courts be, thank you spring agreed the entire law, all of it should be struck down. some people call medicare for all a radical and disruptive proposal on the left, but on the right republicans are pushing something that is as radical as those critics say in the opposite direction right now at this very moment. here to explain what s going on, massachusetts attorney general healy and nick bagley, a professor at the michigan law school who is part of an amicus brief last year in support of the aca. nick, let me start with you to set the context, and then i ll dom you, attorney general. the argument today happened in ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190710:00:33:00

Rule of law. what was the argument of that judge, and how did that go over today? so the argument is when congress passed its tax bill, it zeroed out the penalty for going without insurance. and everybody understood that what congress was doing was repealing the individual mandate. right. the president said so himself. but the red state attorneys general say ah-ha, congress left on the books a naked meaningless command to buy insurance, one that can t be enforced at all. and they say that command is unconstitutional. and because that command, which is backed up by no penalties at all is unconstitutional, the entire act has to fall. what is the position of the state of massachusetts, attorney general, on this? well, chris, it s great to be with you, though i m really sad to be here, because frankly, this issue should have been and was settled long ago. the supreme court already upheld the constitutionality of the affordable care act, and then congress went on to try to ....

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