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Legal Update: John McCain’s Eligibility, Teen Web Speech, Fired TV News Anchor

Senator John McCain has the Republican nomination, but why are some folks questioning his eligibility to be president? Why can a student who wrote a nasty blog about school administrators from her per

Legal Update: John McCain’s Eligibility, Teen Web Speech, Fired TV News Anchor

Tom Fudge: Can John McCain be constitutionally barred from serving as president of the United States? More importantly, can a 17-year-old Connecticut girl be barred from serving as secretary of her student council?

It is election season and Dan Eaton joins us to talk about those constitutional questions. We hear about a case in which a white TV news anchorman was let go for being too "anchor-like."

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  • Dan Eaton ,San Diego attorney and These Days legal analyst.

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