March 26 – A Supreme Court Litigator Reports on Today’s Arguments; An Advocate For Single Payer with an Amicus Brief; Bargaining or Bombing Nuclear Have-Nots

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 We begin with today’s activities inside and outside of the Supreme Court as the nine justices take up the constitutionality of the president’s Affordable Care Act. Elizabeth Wydra, the Chief Council of the Constitutional Accountability Center joins us. She has frequently participated in Supreme Court Litigation and we assess the arguments so far and the likely outcome. wydra

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Then Doctor Margaret Flowers joins us. She is a pediatrician and an organizer with the National Occupation of Washington, DC and a Congressional Fellow for Physicians for a National Healthcare Program and a member of the board of Healthcare-Now. She rallied today on the steps of the Supreme Court in support of a brief she and 50 other doctors filed with the Supreme Court to strike down the individual mandate and institute Single Payer now.

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Then finally we look into the president’s remarks today, both on the record and off, in South Korea at a global summit focusing on securing fissile nuclear material. John Steinbruner, Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland and the Chairman of the Board of the Arms Control Association joins us to discuss the state of both nuclear arms reductions and efforts at nuclear non-proliferation.

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