FOCUS: The Supreme Court Supplied a Blueprint to Overcome Citizens United

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Description

James Marc Leas, patent lawyer from South Burlington, Vermont, talks with FOCUS host Margaret Harrington about how to cancel the dominance of the 1 percent over all levels of government that the Supreme Court created with its decisions in Buckley v. Valeo and Citizens United. Money in politics is the issue and Leas gives a legal argument that the United States Supreme Court overturned the Nevada Supreme Court decision regarding a Nevada case involving money influence on a legislator's vote deciding that voting on a city council or in the legislature is an official act, not speech. The Supreme Court held that the First Amendment reasoning in Buckley and Citizens United "has no application when what is restricted is not protected speech."

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Summary

Production Date: 02/06/2017
Catalog Number: none
Archive Number: 11004
Series: FOCUS
Length: *0:27:51
Town: Burlington
Geography: Burlington
Event Type: General
Content Type: Other

Airtimes

1 Wednesday February 8, 2017 at 6:30 PM
2 Thursday February 9, 2017 at 6:00 AM
3 Friday February 10, 2017 at 11:30 PM
4 Saturday February 11, 2017 at 4:30 AM
5 Saturday February 11, 2017 at 10:30 AM
6 Monday February 20, 2017 at 2:00 PM
7 Saturday March 4, 2017 at 6:00 PM
8 Saturday March 11, 2017 at 5:30 AM
9 Saturday March 11, 2017 at 11:30 AM

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