PLF: Anastasia Explains Everything
What’s the Point of the Electoral College?
The purpose of the Electoral College is to give balance to the states and to extend the representation in Congress to the elections for the President. The Electoral College was created as an alternative to electing the President by popular vote or by Congress. Anastasia Boden, senior attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation, explains what the United States Electoral College is.
Original Link: https://youtu.be/S77vcsT8wj4
Court Packing Explained by a Constitutional Lawyer
With the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg just a few weeks before the 2020 election, court packing is experiencing a revival in the national conversation. But what exactly is "court packing"? What does the Constitution say about it? Has it been done before? In this video, senior PLF attorney Anastasia Boden explains the history, controversy, and constitutional rules around packing the court.
Original Link: https://youtu.be/84RDpEc98F0
Citizens United Was a Good Supreme Court Decision
The people who hate Citizens United are actually some of the people right now who are benefiting from it most. If you support free speech and the ability to criticize politicians through films and books, then you should love this Supreme Court ruling.
Original Link: https://youtu.be/KKj5W5aizxU
The Right to Exclude
"One of the most important aspects of the right to to own property is the right to exclude people. Anastasia Boden, our resident constitutional attorney, talks about the history of property rights in court. This episode is timely since the Supreme Court will be hearing one of PLF's cases in less than a week, which is a landmark decision for property rights across the country. ""It's your dinner party, you can exclude people if you want to!""
Original Link: https://youtu.be/VSNHxIv4VE4
Can the Government Mandate Vaccinations?
Now that the Covid-19 vaccine is finally here, everyone wants to know if the government can force you to get a vaccine. Those who know about Jacobson v. Massachussetts in 1905 say the answer is obvious. This was during an outbreak of smallpox in New England where Massachussetts imposed a mandatory vaccine law. Rev. Henning Jacobson went to court arguing that that violated his constitutional rights. Justice John Harlan emphasized the importance of liberty, but liberty allows you to live your life as long as you're not harming other people. The government can restrict liberty when necessary to protect the public.
Original Link: https://youtu.be/BCt5AhBSzeI
How a Case Gets to the Supreme Court
Despite what you hear on TV or in the movies, you can't just take a case to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court will only hear a very small fraction of cases involving a very small fraction of disputes. The Supreme Court only hears three types of suits: appeals from state courts, appeals from federal courts, or cases where the supreme court has original jurisdiction. The entire process of how a Supreme Court case gets filed is explained by Anastasia.
Original Link: https://youtu.be/xN18snKh-H4
Are Race and Gender Quotas Constitutional?
"The truth about quotas is that they treat people as interchangeable members of a group rather than individuals. Quotas require the very thing they are reportedly getting rid of, which is discrimination on the basis of race or sex. Quotas denigrate people's accomplishments. If a person gets hired, people will assume it was because of the quota, not one's educational background or great interview.
Original Link: https://youtu.be/BVRLWXZHCJs
Certificate of Need Laws
A certificate of need is not like your ordinary license. When getting a traditional license, a person will have to go through certain training, accreditation, schooling, and apprenticeship. A certificate of need has nothing to do whether you're qualified. The only thing a certificate of need program purports to do is to decide whether a new business is needed and it is the established competitors who gets to weigh in on that. Existing competitors who hold a certificate are invited to testify about whether they think the new competition is really needed. Most of the time, a new application is protested and then denied.
Original Link: https://youtu.be/X-VE5AQo0y8
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Anastasia Boden is a civil rights attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation where she focuses on economic opportunity and equality before the law and she hosts this episodic series exploring heard-of, but not well-understood concepts of law and government policy.
NODEHAUS handled the complete post-production for this series; ingesting footage, handling transcripts and data management, editing, graphics, color and sound mix, and delivery.
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Client: Pacific Legal Foundation
Production Co: NODEHAUS
Editor: Tran Hoang Calvin
Graphics: Triston Centretto, Timothy Frederick, Jacob McElroy, William Docsa
