Michael Greenberger

Last week, President Obama re-committed himself to closing the detention center for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay. Obama’s remarks came during a mass detainee hunger-strike and on the heels of a renewed conversation about terrorism in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings.

In 2010, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.   The idea was to prevent another global recession. But has it worked?  We ask former regulator and University of Maryland law professor Michael Greenberger.

Three law professors and constitutional experts discuss Thursday's Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act and Chief Justice John Roberts' shift to the more liberal side, a move that saved the health care overhaul, surprised the political left and angered the right. In finding the law legitimate on tax grounds, after rejecting the individual insurance mandate as a regulation of commerce, was the Chief Justice concerned less with law than with the court's credibility with the American public?

Michael Greenberger, professor at the University of Maryland School of Law, analyzes Tuesday's extraordinary Supreme Court session on the Affordable Care Act. Prof. Greenberger's wide range of experiences include two decades with the Washington law firm of Shea & Gardner, where he served as lead litigation counsel in courts across the country, including the Supreme Court.

Michael Greenberger, University of Maryland law professor and former director of the Division of Trading and Markets at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and Paul Bolding, longtime correspondent for Reuters, join us this hour to help us assess the global impact of last week’s Wall Street selloff and Standard and Poor’s downgrading of the U.S. international credit rating.