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Democracy Now! 27 May 2011 A Wisconsin judge has struck down Gov. Scott Walker's union-busting law because Republican legislators failed to provide sufficient public notice before passing the measure in March. The law sharply curbs nearly all collective bargaining rights of state employees. Democracy Now! interviews John Nichols of The Nation magazine on the future of the bill, Wisconsin's repressive new Voter ID bill, and Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) budget proposals to overhaul Medicare and Medicaid.

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