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Do Televised Presidential Debates Sway Voters? Short answer: Probably.

I have received a great deal of positive feedback from last week’s article, especially regarding the need for many citizens to retake a civics class. For that, I thank you. As an educator at heart, I would like to conduct an in-depth, multi-installment study of our Constitution. These studies will not be every week. With our current political climate, as events unfold before us, they will need to be addressed. It is a good idea to look at what is actually said and not said in our Constitution. I have found that few have read it cover to cover and when cherrypicked, they miss important parts. With that being said, a little background first.

Things just got a little harder for the Securities and Exchange Commission, which henceforth must seek certain civil damages for securities fraud by going to federal court, rather than through its own internal adjudicatory process. That’s the upshot of the Supreme Court’s decision in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy, which held unconstitutional — under the Seventh Amendment — a provision of Dodd-Frank that allowed the SEC to pursue unregistered advisers without a jury trial.