a rational way to proceed? >> i don't think so. the court has traditionally said the question of a right and whether or not there exists an opportunity to make a claim and the remedy for it are and litically distinct -- >> it says the remedy can complicate it. the court is not set up to do that. wescott said the court can go one way or the other way. it is there as a temporary legislation. it goes back to congress to do would it will, but in the interim we need a solution. >> that is correct, and certainly congress can do that. the solicitor general brief makes it clear that what was being balanced here are concerns about statelessness on the one hand and connection to the united states on the other. if congress hadn't attuned based on gender stereotypes that men weren't caring for children, then it would have been able to put them in the same category as women because they would understand that both were caring for children. as time has gone on in the national women's center brief, it pointsed out that the number of men who are raising chil

he was looking for a catholic democrat with lower court experience. you have that up and there's not a big pool to choose from. in the sense that was the goal, those were the criteria, he fit the bill. i think -- i don't think president eisenhower expected him to become the great liberal champion that he became. as far as the immediate task this was the bill he wanted. >> in contrast to today's supreme court nomination process i don't think anybody in the entire eisenhower administration ever asked him a single question about what his impact will be on the supreme court, where he would fit or how he would decide cases. they basically asked him if he was a good judge. he was smart enough to say yes. and, you know, in the course of the nomination the question about his catholicism is an important part of the nomination when they introduced him in the white house press room to the press corps they really only said one thing about him. not we think he's going to be a practitioner of judicial restraint or an advocate of original intent or something like tha

it seems extraordinary now, a court consisting of six catholics and three jews. he was stereotyped from the beginning in two ways, this happy leprechaun. he was a small -- he's not a tall guy. and he was a very personal man, very friendly, it was genuine, but you see even the stories from his selection describing the jaunty irishman. it's very much how justice sotomayor who now occupies his seat was sort of charactered and stereotyped as a fiery latina. and, unfortunately, that stereotype of justice brennan, i think, stuck, and it played into a second notion, how he did his job as a justice. there was this notion that he was this irish ward boss, that he was some politician going through the hallway shaking hands, making deals, slapping backs. he deeply resented that idea, and i in many ways rightfully so. his success wasn't due to the fact that somehow he was a politician working the room or working the halls. he was an extraordinary consensus builder. he had extraordinary skills, but interpersonal was only a piece of it. he also had the extraordinary gift of ser

lynn hoffman is amongñr a groupf arizona taxpayer who is argued it in court. it unconstitutionally promotes religion at the expense of the state's public school. >> i do not believe that the money that a taxpayer owes to the general fund should be diverted as it is being. to private schools, just diverting money out of the general funds private schools. i'm a public school adherent. we should keep the money in the general fund for public schools. >> after bouncing around the lower court for ten years, her challenge reached the u.s. supreme court with justices and lawyers debate iing a question semantics and law. if the money doesn't come out of the state treasury, is it still taxpayer money? attorneys say it is not. >> we certainly take issue with the premise that this is government money. this is simply not the government's money until you reach the bottom line of the tax form and no sooner. >> attorney paul bender representing the taxpayers challenging the tax credit ask the justices if it's not the government's money, whose is it? >> you give this money as

court. mr. smith asked if you think that is a good idea or what did seould it politicize the court? o go it is a tough question and one that we get a lot. -- >> it is a tough question, and one that we get a lot. one of the innovations i mentioned, making the tapes of the arguments available. before this term you waited a year before it was over. now you wait as quickly as three days. three to five days. that is a big step. we're trustees of an extremely valuable institution that has evolved over more than two centuries. all of us want to be very careful. we do not want to do something that we think might injure the institution. broadcasting is something that does come up. it is something we consider from time to time. i do not know which direction the court will go. there are arguments on both sides. i certainly appreciate the argument that it would give people a chance to see what we do. i think that would be a good thing for people to see what we do, but there's also concern it might affect what we do. whether it is or lawyers are going to be more interested in in showboating, whet

court. the defendants were charge today, if i mentied in a criminal complaint file here in federal court. the complaint charges two federal crimes. the first is tampering with the witness and evidence. the second is destruction of records in a federal investigation. each of these crimes carries a mac sentence of 20 years in prison. the details of the allegations are spelled out in the fderal criminal complaint. the fbi has been conducting a long-term investigation of corruption allegations near prince george's coun. wi the support of the sxirs other agencies. these investigations involve allegations that real estate developers have beenregularly paying off government officials in return for official actions. in question, the real estate development investigation and another investigatn, the fbi agents have obtained the court order wiretaps that have been in place since september of 2009. the specific allegation in this complaint concerns a federal prm overseen by the u.s. department of housing and urban development. the program is knn as the home investment partnership. under that program,

and russian businessman back to britain denies charges of the arms trafficking and terrorism as a court in the us has swift extradition from thailand on tuesday. to israeli soldiers accused of using a palestinian child as a human shield received eighty nine sentenced much to the angle of human rights groups and the international community. hello and welcome to the program this is all sees that we can review my name as you dash provide our story now russia is open to talks about taking part in the european missile defense system but only as an equal partner present be true that it was speaking at a nato summit in lisbon hailed as his story for ending the alliances one's hostile relationship with moscow but has also lauren this time reports differences still remain. nato rolled out the red carpet for the country once considered its foe. and russian president dmitri medvedev arrived at the summit of the former cold war military alliance to leaders welcoming him with open arms and a plea call her right with arse. let us do this together leaders on both sides seem to indicate they plan to do

russian diplomats are finally promised access to businessmen viktor bhutto has just appeared in a new york court to face arms trafficking charges. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton joins a growing chorus of officials are urging the senate to ratify the start nuclear cuts treaty before republicans gain the upper hand in a legislative body. european finance ministers still work on a possible aid package for debt stricken ireland an effort to restore confidence in the euro zone. when the second world war ended it closed a period of her roic service and self-sacrifice for most but for others it's a stain on the past so they'd rather forget as some survivors have been telling r.t. . visits to this house from leo frankel street in central budapest are by special invitation only even the sign marquee trying to get his doorbell is missing in their strip by vandals or the tenants so fed up with inquisitive intruders. needs help from his friends to do it household chores and acts officer and hi gary and john di maria he's lived here under virtual siege for nearly three years he stayed largely indoor

it is a court with three women on the bench for the first time, but nonetheless, there have not been big ideological shifts. the court will tackle or consider a number of hot button issues in the weeks ahead, including a controversial immigration statute in arizona and a class action civil rights lawsuit against wal-mart. but first, joan, what have we seen in the early months of this newly composed court. >> you have been watching sarah palin, elena kagan is in our sights. she is the newest justice. we have just sotomayor who has been on six months herself. it's a whole new bench. both of those new justices are quite active. elena kagan because she used to be the government's top lawyer before the supreme court has had to recuse herself, take herself out of a handful of government cases. in the ones that she is in, she is very focused. she mixes it up. she gets in there and asks a lot of pointed questions. she is a real player during or alarguments and on the -- oral arguments and on the law. she is making a difference. at the same time, despite the changes, we have seen a lot of the

this sounds like the ball is in the detainee court but a few pages later, we find the court stating, required of the government in these cases is a matter to be determined. it seems to contemplate the government has to make some sort of a showing to assume that to be the case we have assumed this the government has to make some kind of showing. the question remains what kind of showing? what is the nature of the government's burden of proof? you can read and read boumediene and you will not find an answer. so how does the court go about solving this question of answering it? here are the options. the burden of proof could be beyond a reasonable doubt as in the criminal cases. it could be clear and convincing evidence perhaps as standard as a preponderance of evidence or maybe it is probable cause which is all the police need to hold somebody suspect a crime. or maybe the proof required of the government is merely some evidence for decades that was the standard of deportation. again, how does the court choose among these options? what are the legal principles that govern? some of the j

that development comes after a federal appeals court extended its freeze on a lower court order yesterdayhalting enforcement of the policy. meanwhile, that same federal appeals court is hearing arguments over arizona's request to enforce it's controversial immigration law. yesterday, the three-judge panel signaled it was ready to toss out one provision that criminalizes the failure to show papers for lawful residency in the u.s. >>> the number of gulf residents receiving compensation for this summer's bp oil disaster has suddenly risen dramatically. some 20,000 were rejected last month. kenneth feinberg who heads the $20 billion fund says many claims are lacking crucial details while others are being investigated for potential fraud. >>> authorities in germany are monitoring a dangerous sinkhole the size of a basketball court that opened up this week swallowing a car and still growing. >> and now here's an early look at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 11,124 after adding 6 points yesterday. the s&p edged up one point. the nasdaq fell two. taking a look at overseas

those calls were monitored by fbi agents pursuant to a court order wiretap. when fbi agents knocked on the door of the johnson's home according to the affidavit, jack and leslie had a conversation about how to destroy evidence and how to conceal currency that was in the house. jack and leslie johnson discussed destroying a check from the developer, specifically mr. johnson told leslie johnson to flush the check down the toilet. agents entered the home and conducted a search of leslie johnson. according to the allegations in the affidavit agents discovered 79,600 concealed on mrs. johnson. now, the affidavit reveals that today's law enforcement investigation is the tip of an iceburg. what i mean by that is that it is part of a broader ongoing corruption investigation by the fbi and the irs here in prince george's county. that investigation is active and ongoing. in the coming weeks and months, you'll learn more about the details of this investigation as the matter proceeds. we still have several real estate developers and government officials to be interviewed

for tonight's tool time award and we're giving it to most of the state lawmakers in kentucky and a court brief the lawmakers are demanding that the state be permitted to acknowledge reliance upon almighty god in their homeland security department let me explain here last year a circuit court ruled that provisions into laws requiring the kentucky office of homeland security to acknowledge god were a violation of the church and state separation the laws were passed back in two thousand and two and two thousand and six and declared that safety and security of the commonwealth could not be achieved apart from reliance upon almighty god a group of atheists are now suing the state of kentucky and now lawmakers have also decided to weigh it ninety six of the state's one hundred house members signed one brief while thirty five of thirty eight straight senators signed another yes almost all of kentucky's house members think that god and the defense of our homeland are inextricably linked and here's the good part of it too the brief filed by the senators was written in part by roy moore former chi

>> there are a number of court cases. s paternity suit, where he wants custody of the little girl. he's trying to deprive her of custody. he doesn't want to pay support for the child. then you have a criminal proceeding, where oksana and her son have gone to the district attorney and described the events of january 6th, the beating. by the way, mel acknowledges he hit her. it's not as if he says he's in chicago and didn't touch her. he admits hitting her. in the criminal court, you have the domestic violence and mel has filed a phony charge against her that she somehow released the tapes and was guilty of extortion and was threatening him to release the tapes, none of which is true. >> i never threatened him. i walked on $15, what he was offering me, to wash his hands. >> larry: he offered you how much? >> $15 million. >> larry: to drop the thing. >> to settle, but he, the way he obtained that custody, it was fraudulent. >> $15 million to end everything. >> larry: no criminal, no nothing. >> so, the i'm sure the extortion

russian businessman because of breed denies charges of always trafficking and terrorism at a court in the us up to his swift extradition from thailand here's de. trees radio soldiers accused of using a palestinian child as a human shield to receive eighty nine same turns much to the anger of human rights groups and the international community. hello and welcome to the program this is weekly review and you know. main story russia is open to talks about taking part in the european missile defense system but only as an equal partner president to make sure that it was speaking at a nato summit and there's been this historic ending balances once hostile relationship with moscow but as also his lower list to report differences remain. nato rolled out the red carpet for the country once considered its boat. and russian president dmitri medvedev arrived at the summit of the former cold war military alliance to leaders welcoming him with open arms and a plea. cooperate with us. let us do this together leaders on both sides seem to indicate they plan to do just that after nato russia talks they

the obama administration for trying him in a civilian court or a bush administration which allowed him to be sent to a secret prison where his lawyers say he was tortured. >>> and sarah palin looking for a run at the white house and believes she can beat president barack obama. we'll show you the interview with barbara walters and how she's positioned to top the other republican candidates. >>> and our series on amazing animals continues. the latest scientific research about how apes think and communicate. i met the apes myself. scientists say they can communicate using the english language and somehow i ended up in a costume dressed as a rabbit because i was told that's what the apes wanted. >>> again, this is the first guantanamo bay detainee to be tried in court. the jury found him guilty of conspiracy to destroy u.s. property. a maximum of life behind bars or 25 years behind bars. all the other charges including all the murders he was acquitted on. he was moved to guantanamo two years after being captured. conservative critics are blasting the obama administration right now. he sai

headlines russian diplomats finally promised access to a businessman who has just appeared in a new york court to face arms trafficking charges. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton joins a growing chorus of officials urging the senate to ratify the start treaty before republicans gain the upper hand in the legislature. and european finance ministers started work on a possible aid package for a debt stricken. ireland but an effort to restore confidence in the eurozone. up next when the second world war ended it closed a period of horowitz service and self-sacrifice for many but for others it's a stain on their past that they'd rather forget as some survivors have been telling r.t. . visits to this house on leo frankl street in central budapest are by special invitation only even the sign marquee showing that a computer store bell is missing in their street by vandals or the tenant so you know with inquisitive intruders. needs help from his friends to do is household chores and next officer in high gear in gendarmerie he's lived here under virtual siege for nearly three years he stayed large

a. court of sovereign state. the importance. of the creation of. security was exceptionally tight throughout the eichmann trial the defendant was protected by bulletproof glass there were serious concerns that some of the holocaust victims or their relatives might attempt to kill eichmann eventually the court gave the verdict as expected adolf eichmann received a death penalty for crimes against humanity is life ended in a prison in a suburb of tel aviv. the center of that run along that street. there was no road on the side of the street so the only road people used was here there was only one road and there were very many high. yeah. it was just eleven in one thousand nine hundred three he remembers clearly how germans came to the once rich town of dog enough there were five thousand jews living here at the time he set out to exterminate them straight away they set up a ghetto in a central part of town and put up barbed wire around it they made a plan dividing the process into three stages throughout their stay in dog enough germans were killing

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ransom business learned because of who didn't kill it is where prince not terrorism was a court in the u.s. after he was he's to be extradited from thailand on tuesday. moscow will take hold a missile defense plans be europe only if it's in the group that was one of the outcomes of the naysay russia summit in this but which has been hailed as a fresh start also in their relations also. two israeli soldiers accused of using the palestinian child as a human shield receive aid not seem to match the anger of human rights groups and the international community. welcome see this is a lie from moscow with me alice have as her russian businessman and alleged smuggle of the boot has pleaded not guilty to charges including terrorism owns trafficking he was extradited to the u.s. from bangkok earlier this week and is now in solitary confinement in new york moscow's demanding a fair trial and says it will continue to provide consular assistance when enough or not it takes up the story. a two and a half year campaign to get one russian citizen accused arm dealer victor boot begins to face american

a minute. this has gone too far." >> souter: that's what you got courts for. he country in those opinions? >> souter: yeah. that made him one of the great judges. >> pelley: i would imagine that the majority of the american people would probably disagree with you on these opinions. >> stevens: that may very well be true. you know, it's a part of our job to write opinions, from time to time, that are not popular, and you know at the time they're not going to be popular. >> pelley: stevens took us on a tour of the hidden supreme court. this is the library that's usually open only to lawyers. its not used much now that there's an internet. and this was extremely rare-- network television has never been in the justices' robing room. it looks like a locker room. >> stevens: well, it is. it is a locker room. >> pelley: it's here that all nine justices slip into their gear and, by tradition, shake hands at the start of the new term. we were with stevens in june as he was preparing to hang up his robe for the last time, and it was then that stevens told us he was worri

costs of zero has been trapped in a deadlock since september, when a court ruled the president could not also the head of a party. he resigned and pulled his six ministers out of the coalition. in response, the prime minister called a vote of no-confidence and lost. in russia, a chilled billionaire has appealed to a court in his second trial, telling the judge that the fate of the nation rests on t verct in his case, expected to be handed down in december. he was russia's richest man, but was arrested and convicted in 2003 on charges of tax evasion, theft, and embezzlement. >> at the close of his trial, he said he was willing to spend the rest of his life in prison for his principles. the former oil magnate attacked prime minister vladimir putin and said his trial was a symbol of government arbitrariness. >> the trial was corrupt from the start, in fact and in law. the prosecution is furious and the evidence were fact. >> he is accused of stealing more than 200 million tons of oil from his own company. international observers think the second indictment is a response to his political

russian business when viktor approves denies charges of weapons smuggling and terrorism at a court in the united states after it was hastily extradited from thailand on tuesday. but r t news crews detained in the u.s. says they filmed the rally near a military training academy in ga also. to retrieve the soldiers accused of using the palestinian child as a human shield received since its much to the angle of human rights groups and the international community. fellow eight pm sunday night here in moscow this is r.t. it's kevin zero in with the stories making the headlines from this past week and first russia is open to discussion over its participation in european missile defense but only if it's offered a fair and equal role president dmitri medvedev emphasized that point at the nato summit in lisbon held this historic for ending a once hostile relationship between russia and the alliance results his loyalists are reports next there are still issues which they don't see eye to eye on. nato rolled out the red carpet for the country once considered its bow and russian president dmitri

played a big part in the political life unlike his cousins court in petersburg or in moscow but you're right to say there was this huge crisis in the middle of his life when you'd finished an accordion you know which was a fantastic success as was war and peace and it made him very very rich which he hadn't been before he'd been land it and it had peasants and it had the states but he wasn't very rich he then became a multimillionaire as we would say. and he had a crisis what's the point of it all there's a moment in his autobiography where he said he couldn't even be in a room in the room with a piece of rope feel he would want to hang himself he then thought the way to live for is to try to be like a peasant and for a few years he pretended that. by the way set up schools not only on his interstates the vast acres and miles around us and i probably on the starting education. he was the great pioneer of russian education and even now they sometimes in some russian schools use his a.b.c. to teach people to read. so it wasn't just sort of pious try dreaming but having pretended to be a

russian business one victim who denies charges of weapons smuggling and terrorism at a court in the us after he was hastily extradited from thailand don't choose day. and. i think that. any news crew is detained in the us as they filmed a rally near a military training academy in georgia we've got the latest tonight on that one plus. two israeli soldiers accused of using a palestinian child as a human shield for the night seem to match the end of the future and the international community. is ten pm sunday night here in moscow you're very welcome if you just joined this she watching the r.t. news channel with me kevin and i've got the stories making the headlines from the past week and russia is open to discussion over its participation in european missile defense but only if it's offered a third. equal role president dmitri medvedev emphasized the point at the nato summit in lisbon hailed as historic for ending a once hostile relationship between russia and the alliance but it is lower listed reports next there's still remain issues on which they yet to see eye to eye. nato rolled out

russian businessman victor boot denies charges of weapons smuggling and terrorism of a court in the u.s. he was hastily extradited from thailand choose day. by. any. news crew is detained in the u.s. says they filmed the rally near a military training academy in ga. and two israeli soldiers get no jail for using a palestinian boy as a human shield they forced a nine year old to check bags for bombs during the gaza war two years ago. just after midnight thirty one moscow time it may be a century since the death of one of the world's greatest writers puts a biographer of leo tolstoy explains next why his legacy lives on and how he might be viewed if he were alive today. it's the hundredth anniversary of player tolstoy's death and to mark that anniversary i'm talking to one of his biographers a n. wilson he wanted award in one thousand nine hundred eight for a biography of tolstoy and wilson thank you very much for talking to r.t. now first as a biographer what attracted you to tolstoy here's a giant he was the great giant of the novelistic form greater even than dostoyevsky who i suppose

credit company accused of setting up a fake court and judge to fools debtors to pay up that's in the kaiser report in just a. max times are and this is the kaiser report you know back in the one nine hundred sixty s. they used to say question. now nobody questions anybody's authority let's talk to stacy remember to get more details days in a very complex way you can see this in the first headline fake judges use fake deputies to collect fake debts and fake courts that's right the attorney general of pennsylvania is suing unicredit america incorporated for allegedly using civil subpoenas to summon consumers to a fake courtroom which allegedly contained furniture and decorations similar to those use an actual court offices including a raised bench area where a fake judge would be seated two tables and chairs in front of the bench for attorneys and defendants a simulated witness stand and seating for spectators and legal books on the book shelves it was all fake in order to put the fear of god in the bad debtors who they were trying to collect debt from and these people were assuming the

is the trial of joseph sure grubber a very marked officer who spend the rest of his life in prison a court of law as a stablished that he's guilty of murdering fourteen italian civilians in one thousand nine hundred four. these are so-called last chance trials many of the war criminals are already dead so as prosecutors review each case they're asking for the maximum term without regard for the age of the defendants. beyond rubin one of the surviving doggin of jews sometimes visits this place and yet the sham itself or cost museum. in a career which. i don't. know he know. this is the alley of the righteous it commemorates the names of people who risked their lives during the holocaust to save jews it has the name a few of them a fellow chink who saved tel of use chief rabbi next to it there's the name of nigga like you so you know it was leon rubin who made sure the russian was listing one of the righteous among nations. that it deserved that it made it sound. listening to nice. everyone. crying and begging him to. do.

context and be very careful in making categorization is the way that you made ok but i mean even a court in israel found sharon culpable for events in lebanon one thousand nine hundred two but israel doesn't want internet. have its citizens tried under any kind of a new and your national to your new law it's inexcusably it's excuse me the question is guilty of what i said call the lords of it and say go i'll let you go let you tell him the word that he will let you rely on words whenever it is but what if the is really not that person but can he was removed he was removed from office in other words he was deemed unfit to serve as minister of defense why that's not a crime. not a bit of what we see deemed unfit. because it is because his judgment eat he displayed poor judgment in a very in the situation that he was in so that doesn't put him in jail that puts him at of the office ok so there's a tremendous difference yeah it's a difference with a lot of people were massacred and someone loses their job and you think that's fair excuse me excuse me he had nothing to do with sad branch atti

. >>> a court hearing in prince george's county revealed new details on the rackdown of corruption. jackie bensen has more tonight. jackie? >> reporter: it was a courtroom bombshell, a hint that a probe of two liquor store owners may have included violations that they bribed unnamed public officials. a large crowd of amrik and ravinder melhi's friends were held for mrs. melhi. the couple are accused of hiring people to help them sell untaxed liquor and cigarettes. $400,000 in cash was found in the couple'sresidence. during the hearing, prosecutors cited a wire tap of the melhi's home and dropped a tantalizing hint at at may be the next step in the investigation. >> the intimation is bribery, but the government has not given much. we're still very early in this case. >> i don't understanthat. >> this was amrik melhi back in 2007, the day prince george's county executive jack johnson ordered nine bars, including melhs tick-tock liquor store closed as nuisance establishments. they closed five tablishments the next day, saying the county did not provide efficient evidence. council electr

collect fake debts and fake courts that's right the attorney general of pennsylvania is suing unicredit america incorporated for allegedly using civil subpoenas to summon consumers to a fake courtroom which allegedly contained furniture and decorations similar to those use an actual court offices including a raised bench area where a fake judge would be seated two tables and chairs in front of the bench for attorneys and defendants a simulated witness stand and seating for spectators and legal books on the book shelves it was all fake in order to put the fear of god in the bad debtors who they were trying to collect debt from and these people were assuming these are real judges handed over basically keys to their houses and told this debt collection agency to go into their house and go take assets from them in a credit is just a fake company the part of the fake economy banks writing fake mortgages and then engaging in fake foreclosure notices securitizing fake securities and to think. our allies mortgage obligations sold to fake hedge funds who trade these things back and forth for huge bonuses that's where the money comes down they actually pay themselves huge bonu

a different sentence from professional judges. the extraordinary comment by the presiding judge in court today urged the man to appeal to a higher court indicates how difficult it is to impose the death penalty. >> so do you think today's sentence will affect the sentencing of other cases involving lay judges? >> yes. to a certain extent. lay judges currently involved in proceedings of several multiple murder cases in japan, it is likely more and more of them will face the difficult decision of whether to sentence a person to death. japan is one of a few developed countries that oppose capital punishment according to a survey conducted last year, 86% of respondents agreed the death penalty is necessary in some cases. most said victims deserve justice and their bereaved families would not be satisfied if their murderer was not put to death. others believed atrocious crimes could increase if japan abandoned the death penalty. >> all right. so how much information is available in japan on the process criminals go through before they actually receive the death penalty? >> actually, not a lot. a few facts made them public. some experts say

i'd like to go to you to follow up on with michael that would be it would be a bad idea to have a lot of court martials maybe that would change behavior and i think that's what this whole endeavor is about to change behavior to stop doing these kinds of things if they are a fact factually true go ahead. it's been fairly disappointing that here in the united states people seem to be more upset at the release of the day at least of this information and then on the some of the war crimes that they have documented. the talk about killing the messenger i mean this is this is what's what's really important and i'm afraid have to take issue joel said about defending freedom it's not they're not defending freedom when they they did they hand over people to be be tortured and murdered by the by a brutal regime that's not defending freedom that i think those that refuse to really for fees to release these documents should be prosecuted for obstruction of justice not those who who make them make them public ok gentlemen i will i will i'll tell you i had when we continue so you're saying you're saying you

the loser will go to a court, appellate, could go to the illinois supreme court. people argue he never intended to moouch to washington permanently and never established a permanent residence, and that can be proven easily enough because there was a six-month lease on the house that was left. while this is a ripe legal question, as you point out, he's trying to frame the politics as an attempt to prevent people from chicago having a choice. it's a bit of politics in chicagos. >> it could have a major impact on the mayor election. here's what he said in chicago. he says he's going to challenge this. ramm admits he lived in washington with his family. his children were in school there. the bottom line he hasn't lived in chicago. he could cite all the photos we have in our own library and show him at the white house all throughout 2009. in one of the months he was disqualified he was on my old program "state of the union." that was one of the months where the election board sent a letter to his house. it came back return to sender. this could come down to interpretati

the court was making a decision for extension. it recognized it had to do be there. >> in many of the benefits case, the same analysis was available and that the analysis that we are asking that the court apply here. >> mr. hubachek, you are asking, i think, that the court pronounce your client to be united states citizens. isn't that the only pronouncement from a court that is going to be for your clients? [inaudible] >> this is a criminal case, so asking berbers of the judgment an opportunity to present this -- >> reversal of the judgment on the grounds that your client is a united states citizen, right? >> that it would be possible for him on the to become united states citizens, yes. >> ideas. did you have any other case where a court has conferred citizenship on someone who under the statute as written does not have it? >> well, that was one of the issues that was debated in the wind and miller cases and the court has not said it yet. that's correct. but it can in this case for a number of reasons. number one is about the seve

nonetheless a quite remarkable fact that this was a former presidents of a nation he was being put on trial before an international court and that's no mean achievement is the project of international justice complete by all means not we now see a fledgling international criminal court also in existence in the hague has that court been successful to date well it's way too early to tell the fact that russia china united states pakistan india are boycotting the court is that unfortunate indeed i think it is but nevertheless i think. we shouldn't overlook the incredibly important achievement of the first nuremberg trial ok i'd like to go back to the selectiveness of international justice a little bit later how about you bill what is the most important precedent you think that nuremberg left us today and i think what all of us agree maybe on at least one point if it is a work in progress do you think bill. well i do think i agree with douglas that set a very important precedent there is a direct connection between the nuremberg trials after world war two and the genocide convention of one thousand nine hundred forty eight a

russian businessman victor both denies charges of weapons smuggling and terrorism at a court in the u.s. after he was hastily extradited from thailand children's day. r t news crew is detained in the us as they filmed a rally near a military training academy in ga plus. the soldiers accused of using a palestinian child as a human shield the night seem to match today and over a few rights groups and the international community. hello is what i am here in moscow you're watching the r.t. news channel i'm kevin zero in with the stories making headlines this past week and russia is open to discussion over its participation in european missile defense but only if it's offered a fair and equal role president dmitri medvedev emphasized that point of the nato summit in lisbon hailed as historic for ending a once hostile relationship between russia and the alliance but as artie's laura mr reports next there still remain issues on which they get to see eye eye to. nato rolled out the red carpet for the country once considered its foe. and russian president dmitri medvedev arrived at the summit of

those calls were monitored by fbi agents pursuant to a court ordered wiretap. fbi agents knocked on the door of the johnson's home. johnson and his wife had a discussion about how to destroy evidence and concealed currency in the house. jack johnson and his wife discussed concealing a check from the developer. jack johnson told his wife to flush the check down the toilet. agents entered johnson's home and conducted a search. according to the allegations, agents discovered $79,000 concealed on mrs. johnson. the evidence revealed that today's investigation is the tip of the iceberg. what i mean by that is that it is part of an ongoing corruption investigation by the fbi here in prince george's county. that investigation is active and ongoing. in the coming weeks and months, we will learn more about the details of this investigation as the matter proceeds. we still have several real estate developers to interview. fbi agents will be conducting those interviews and gathering additional evidence over the coming days. we expect additional defendant and additional char