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Nov 2022
31m 19s

The War Between the States

ROMAN MARS
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How the Dormant Commerce Clause tries to stop states from passing laws that put an undue burden on interstate commerce. Plus, what's going on with student debt relief: who filed a lawsuit against it and why. 
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