supreme court justice clarence thomas ex-core rated his peers saying: >>> elizabeth, why did clarence thomas give us an idea of the supreme court tipping its hand about the april argument and ruling later this year? >> well i do think the trend across the country in favour of marriage equality the one that continues when the case comes to the supreme court. we have seen a precedent over the last several decades driven by anthony kennedy, recognising the dignity of gay and lesbian americans and couples, just justice kennedy was concerned about the equal dignity of the families and mentioned a few years ago, that struck down part of the defensive marriage act. when the justices pick up the issue. some of them have been complaining about. i think they'll rule in favour of marriage equality because of the text history and press dent are clear on this matter. >> given the traditions in the united states that marriages from missouri are honoured in i.s.i.l. and marriages in jersey are honoured in new york. can we sustain a system where certain states allow same-sex marriage and others don't

we learned it from you the way they treated clarence thomas.he modern right learned. >> let's go to the lawyer. >> i greatly admire justice thomas. i think he is incredible and very humble. he is rarely heard from. his spoken word is powerful. he is an example of everything that is right about this country just like with ben carson. they both came from limited opportunity. they believe in equality of opportunity and not of result. if you are born here you are miles ahead of everybody else. work hard to determination and self focus and discipline you can accomplish anything. he doesn't want to limit people by the color of their skin. why aren't more people embracing this notion? >> i think the critics car cuture him but he is there and making a difference. "one more thing" up right now. stay with us. ♪ they lived. ♪ they lived. ♪ they lived. ♪ (dad) we lived... thanks to our subaru. ♪ (announcer) love. it's what makes a subaru a subaru. ♪ grind virtually any kind of food waste into an unending source of electrical power for a city? when emerson

it is certainly true that clarence thomas' philosophy is very different from thurgood marshall's, for, whom thurmond opposed for the supreme court. but i think it is also worth remembering that senator thurmond has given his backing to other individuals of color for high federal positions who are much more liberal than clarence thomas, one of them a federal judge, the first black federal judge from south carolina, matthew perry, who was a former civil rights lawyer. c-span: there was a big piece in the washington post about strom thurmond and, supposedly, a black child. i've got here from simon & schuster a pr letter. they highlight three or four points for this book; in one of them they say, "thurmond's unconventional personal life his reputation as a ladies' man and his second marriage at age 65 to a 22-year-old woman and the persistent allegation that he has provided lifelong financial assistance to a black woman said to be his illegitimate daughter... "i looked in your book, and this is all i found. there is not a word mentioned in this paragraph here about financial assistance an

turning from that critique to something i about that clarence did. they talked about how you did in your runoff, in the runoff race here, you eclipsed emanuel despite being outspent 11-12, how much of this is about him holding together his multiracial coalition. >> i think that is significant. the low turnout of people were not turned against rahm emanuel, they lost a lot of faith in him. meanwhile, jesus garcia, i have been covering him since the early '80s. since back when you were with washington's cam spain, chuy. at the same time, it will be a uphill race, of course, because not that many chicagoans these days know chuy garcia. i think he picked up where karen lewis left off. she was a teacher's head and she had to drop out of contention in this race because of health reasons. and he picked up many of those union people and other folks there in chicago that want an alternative to rahm emanuel. >> thank you for joining us. ly mention that rahm emanuel has an open invite if he wants to defend anything. i already feel like we're the most connected

clarence, give me a minute. i want to bring in congressman iman waleemmanuel cleaver, democrat from missouri. thank you for being here, congressman. >> good to be with you. >> are you surprised at the republican failure to get any bill passed with the deadline now less than six hours away? >> i'm surprised at the margin of that loss because i thought that they would twist enough arms to get the bill crossed. keep in mind votes are supposed to remain open for 15 minutes. they kept the vote open for 45 minutes. during that 45-minute period they were twisting arms and stim couldn't get the votes. so i think that there's a section in that conference that will not support anything that they think will be of value to the president. >> congressman we're talking homeland security a week when three people were arrested talking about joining isis. this is a very very serious time. do republicans have any plan to avoid a homeland security shutdown, to your knowledge? >> as i left the capitol a few minutes ago after the vot

i'm clarence i have two issues with the common core curriculum you've been planning and the first one is getting ready having everyone being ready for callous in my senior year currently not planned for most students at any sfusd school and my plans to be the decompression of the compressed course you proposed over the freshmen and sfoech years and taking the f p science courses before our senior year under this new plan you'll not permit i've seen many students tactical lose at tandem and do very well on the exams and understand the material and retain it and it would be - it would be - damn - okay i'm good i'm good it would be a very - i can't find i'm stufrt now. >> got it clarence. >> so i find is appealing if future students can't take the amongst courses with the other courses it give them application in the real world thank you. >> (clapping.) thank you mr. chin. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm jeremy i'm the california lose teacher at louldz high school where all the time limitations i'm going to talk about the math plummet test for incoming freshmen is a key part a

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clarence thomas made that very clear in his opinion. it's not the decision of whether or not -- >> what happens to the other 66 probate judges who are -- well, 50 of them, who are continuing or say they're going to now begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples despite your order? >> despite my order, sir, the laws of the united states supreme court and the federal district court state very clearly that a state court's trial interpretation of a federal question is just as authoritative of any inferior court, that includes the federal district courts and the law -- and the federal courts of appeals. so that's law. i'm not making it up. >> i understand that. so are you therefore saying that these probate judges and 50 of them are going to start issuing or already have issued licenses to same-sex couples are you saying they're breaking the law? >> they're breaking the alabama constitution marriage amendment which has not been overturned by the united states supreme court. until that court acts any dispute between the state trial c

clarence thomas and antonin scalia said the high court should have put that ruling on hold for a few months. justice thomas criticized his colleagues for looking, quote, the other way as another federal district judge casts aside state laws. meanwhile, this picture is making its way across social media. technician second class thomas sewicky were chosen for the first kiss of the homecoming of "the uss san francisco." >>> we're learning information about the fatal crash involving bruce jenner. sheriff's officials say from the tire marks on the road it does appear that jenner tried to brake before hitting the lexus. investigators say the driver of the lexus who was killed did not have a valid license. all drivers in the crash are being investigated. detectives are looking into cell phone records and plan to examine all of the vehicles involved in the chain-reaction crash. >>> the story made national news. an explosive new claim against drew peterson. the ex-illinois cop is say caused of highing to hire a hitman. he allegedly tried to hire someone between september 13 and december of la

. >> justices antonin and scalia and clarence thomas said today. >> omigodomigod, i know what they said. scalia and thomas are timely getting hitched. what will they wear? what is their couple name going to be. i'm going go with scalomas the sklarence thomatyn. antonim. claris tomatomanin. ninsi kbrrx t. skrom lee owes. antonio ban sklarence. claritin nonbrowsey. unless we're getting gay married isn't what thomas and scale qa said. >> justices antonin scalia and clarence thomas said today the supreme court should have granted alabama's request to put that ruling on hold. >> jon: melatoni. c chlamydia i'm shocked. the stay was not granted. unless you don't happen to have a supreme court justice who thinks he outranked the supreme court. >> chief justition moore of the all billiona court ordered the probate judges not to issue licenses. >> told them they didn't have to follow a federal judges ruling declaring the state's ban on same sex marriage unconstitutional. >> jon: huh. alabama official circumvend-- circumventing a federal ruling against minority right, he was thinking hey, that sel

i have the opinion written by justice clarence thomas. only involved an injunctive relief. >> -- is in the minority sir. >> it's just injunctive relief on the attorney general. that's all that was before the supreme court. clarence thomas made that very clear in his opinion. >> what happened to the other 66 probate judges who are -- well, 50 of them who are continuing or say they're now going to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples despite your order? >> despite my order sir, the laws of the united states supreme court and the federal district court state very clearly that a state court's trial interpretation of a federal question is just as authoritative of any inferior court. that includes the federal district courts and the federal courts of appeals. so that's law. i'm not making it up. >> no i understand that. so are you, therefore, saying that these probate judges, and 50 of them are going to start issuing or already have issued licenses to say sex couples. are you saying they're breaking the law? >> they're breaking t

one of the people that seemed to think that today was justice clarence thomas. me now is the author of the forth coming book "speak now: marriage equality on trial." clarence thomas said that alabama should have been granted their request to not implement marriage inequality today. in so doing he basically said yeah, everybody is about to get gay married everywhere. >> he said this could be taken as a sign, right? >> so is there reason to look at what happened between alabama and the supreme court today as something other than about alabama. about something that might happen nationally? >> i think there definitely is. the big difference is that the supreme court had granted review. so this is different from all of the other earlier cases because they have now granted review and arguments will be held in april. so justice thomas has a point when he says this will be decided by june, so just wait awhile. >> exactly, and that is different from before it took place. >> obviously there is a lot of historical feelings there. what do you make of the legal chaos today w

what is it in the response from clarence thomas in the supreme court on this alabama case.nd telegraphing to the country where it is. >> if the supreme court is going to rule on the same- sex was going to stop same- sex marriages, you wouldn't let them get married today only to have their weddings undone tomorrow. the fact that they did not stop the same- sex marriage in the case is an indication of which way the case will be. >> i think we will know by the end of june. >> thank you very much. >> always a pleasure to work with. >> we ought to keep the judge around for the next segament. more legal trouble for drew petterson. he is accused of a murder for hire plot targeting the prosecutor that put him behind bars. >> and a wild police chase and crash and carjacking and all caught on camera. americans drink 48 billion bottles of water every year. that's enough plastic bottles to stretch around the earth 230 times. each brita filter can replace 300 of those. clean. clear. brita water. nothing is better. . >> hi, everyone. kayla mueller remembered as a tireless volunteer who b

. >> reporter: clarence williams lives on one side of this due plex. >> i didn't know what was going on. i heard about it and two people got killed. that upset me. >> reporter: williams was at work when it happened and he didn't know the family living next door. neighbors want to know what happened. >> it is nerve wracking to see someone was killed. >> i was surprised and shocked and scared. >> reporter: the burlington county prosecutor's office is tight lipped about the case. they don't want to jeopardize the investigation. so they are not releasing the names of the man and woman who died. >> they brought the young man out. he had on boxer shorts and he was full of blood. and that was it. and they put him in the balances in handcuffs. >> reporter: the spokesperson said he couldn't comment. the police department is not commenting at all. all questions are being answered by the prosecutor's office. they are not releasing much information but they do say there is not a killer on the loose. reporting in mount holly, christine maddela, nbc 10 news. >>> an accident in ardmore knocks out p

she came to national dominance when she testified the supreme court nominee clarence thomas who harassedher when he was her father. she said it was difficult to speak out in public but she felt she had no choice. >> listening to the testimony and hearing other people testify and working to get heard, i decided that i had to absolutely say what this could be. >> they have come under criticism for hosting the conference, one of 90 schools under investigation for how sexual assault is handled. this is their commitment to finding a solution. >>> after 25 years, silence has a news set of wheels. our reporter went along as firefighters got to train on state-of-the-art ladder trucks. >> reporter: this is part of the daily routine. a call comes in. wheels and hoses rollout. but there is nothing routine about this job. >> go down all of the way, we will go ahead and raise this latter writeup. >> reporter: when this lieutenant goes to work, this is his view. >> i can hear. - -i can see well from here. >> reporter: this is his new office. >> are first new truck in 25 years, we are excited. >> they

. >> clarence jackson with a damaged rim and undrivable front tire was the first pothole victim we found this morning. >> i'm upset. i am trying to go home to my family. >> minutes later, jasmine and her compact, and then another driver coming in on the tire's rims. >> there is a whole strip in there of just pothole after pothole, it is really bad. >> they have arrived, and some are hard to miss. we looked tonight and found so far this season has been about 20% better than last year. penn d.o.t. used 81 tons of pothole fill compared to 1082 pi this time last year. since january 31st the city of fill have filled many potholes. >> this is my fourth tire change today. >> fourth today. >> just from this stretch, in the same parking lot. >> i was already having a bad day and this made it worse. >> i ron clie,-- ironically this bumpy stretch was just down the road from where it was repaefed last year. i'm george spencer, nbc 10 news. >>> to today problem caused by the weather, the streets bpt says it is behind on picking up trash and the delays will continue to week. residents should still put

are you finished refresh our memory on the nov it was for an unpermitted bathroom or because the clarence'sere not appropriate and the notice of violation was for a final inspection for the rear deck that is still to be dealt with we give them the permit to remove the deck under a separate permit and. >> second bathroom was constructed without the benefits of a permit and permits failed to produce eliminates to alternate or remodel this building to its present configuration i made a copy and to apply to legalize the current codes and revert it back to the legal use to answer your questions the the shortcomings or the code so - and okay. no members of the public so commissioners the matter is submitted or other members of the public. >> i think the evidence presented this evening was the same evidence presented at the last hearing the standards for rehearing are clear and the manifest has to be proven on a personal level 8 persons living in a bathroom is just i grew up in a family of 9 with one bath so i'll deny personally. >> i'm not quite of same opinion of the bathrooms that's okay. that'

clarence page, opinion writer with the "chicago tribune." what do you make of this flipperoo? act it, there aren't going to be any abortions, not going to be iuds or anything. >> i don't think it's exactly a flip. >> oh, tell me how. >> it's more like a slide. it's like before he was saying, i'm pro-life, but i believe in, you know, letting a woman and doctor make the decision. now he's saying, i'm pro-life. >> wait a minute. mike dowd always said he's pro-life but it's up to the woman ultimately. that's pro-choice. if you let the woman decide and don't outlaw abortion, it's up to the woman. it isn't your religious belief. my religious beliefs are pro-life. it's what you believe the law or the constitution determines. >> well, this is what becomes the classic republican catch 22, right? is that when you are running in a state like wisconsin, which is a more moderate state, you have to appeal to the left in order to win and some independent voters. when you are going into republican primary, all of a sudden it changes what you need to be doing, and i think he's certainly trying

and in 1991 hill testified against clarence thomas claiming that he sexually harassed her, but that brought the ishsue to the front, and now the university is more than 90 colleges under investigation by the office of civil rights for its handling of the civil rights cases. >> we vhave developed the policy of survivors to help with more rights. >> but tonight, the survivors say that the system is broken. >> they have a strictly nerve to call the conference "beyond compliance" as if more people are following them, but they are not with us. >> and the uc-berkeley officials will continue to come up with an implement issue to help. i'm cheryl hurd nbc bay area news. >>> and popping pilling at school, and students in the east bay are recovering. five girls were rushed from albany middle school to the hospital. they believe that the girls took the pills. no words on what pills may have been taken. >> not the usual laundromat. officers busted this laundromat for gambling. they seized five slot machines, and surveillance equipment. they say each one can generate $4,000 per week. this is the second

justice clarence toms and anthony scalia said the high court should have granted alabama's request to put that ruling on hold until the court rules on gay marriage nationwide in a few months. according to the press, justice thomas criticized his colleagues as quote, looking another way as another judge casts aside federal court laws. thomas and his partner were the first male same sex couple chosen to share the ceremonial first kiss during home coming of uss san francisco. the warship spent seventh months in the pacific. >>> the driver in the accident with bruce jenner did not have a driver's license according to the "l. a. times." sheriff officials said because of the tire marks on the road jenner tried to brake before hitting the lexus. all vehicles in the crash are being investigated. they are looking into cell phone records. >>> explosive claim against wife killer drew peterson accused of trying to hire a heat man. the target? lead prosecutor behind 2012 conviction. he allegedly tried to hire someone between 2013 and december of last year. in 2012 peterson was convicted of killing

clarence's daughter is in the national guard. >> something's got to be done. you can't keep living like this with terrorists just dominating people that are trying to help other people. >> if it had an outcome that would be positive over there, that would be a different story, but we don't really know who we're fighting. >> reporter: retired air force vet pete believes isis can be defeated without man power. >> economically. their money and food supply. if you can find the people that furnish the supplies and the food and the money and everything to those people they can cut them off and that would stop the nonsense. >> reporter: owen is thankful that it won't mean additional deployments. mcguire-dix-lakehurst said they'll continue training missions and to send cargo or supplies to any troops eradicating isis as they have been for months. cydney long, "nbc10 news." >>> there is no timetable for congress to act on the president's request. but a committee hearing in the house, that's set for tomorrow. house speaker john boehner says changes would likely be made

justices antonin scalia and clarence thomas said today the supreme court should have granted alabama's request to put that ruling on hold out of respect for the state until the court rules on gay marriage nationwide in a few months. the failure to grant alabama's request, thomas said may well be seen as a signal of the court's intended resolution of that question of gay marriage nationwide. roughly two-thirds of alabama counties today refused to grant the marriage licenses. >> i'm sorry. >> reporter: after roy moore, chief justice of the alabama supreme court, urged local officials to ignore the federal court ruling. in 2003 he defied a federal court order to remove a ten commandments monument from the state supreme court building. he was removed from office but was re-elected three years ago. the supreme court takes up the marriage issue in april with a decision by june. it seems unlikely the justices would allow same-sex marriages to go ahead in alabama now if they're just going to stop them a few months from now. lester. >> pete williams tonight, thanks. >>> german chancellor angela

it's easy to bring a clarence darrow or a william jennings bryan. but george washington, we have this view of washington, for many people he's like a wax figure in madam trudeau's museum. or a carved figure up on mount rushmore, he is distant to a lot of us. i think a lot of it is that terrible picture painted on the $1 bill, that was paint near death with a bulging, he looks like a squirrel with his oversized false teeth. actually, that's not what washington was like, and i got to see that in this period of his life when he was much younger before the presidency and after he was a general when he was not in political power when he didn't have -- or military power. he didn't have an office. he was a farmer. he was a plantation owner. he was a private citizen. and i could find out that he was a very, very affable person. he was a wonderful conversationalist. he was a great retail politician. he could tell stories at parties. he loved to go to parties, he loved to dance. he would go to a party -- of course, he was the choice, he was -- when he was you

that are specializing in sophisticated weapons programs now we found out many are cleared for top clarenceitions in the government. neil: with breaking into a defense contractor. >> it is a two-pronged approach. think of the of money made setting up false accounts and cybercrime. because you doesn't need a computer tied to the defense of boeing were 15,000 people get their health care making a leap into their computer. we have discussed this before. they are a communist country they don't play by the same rules. they will want to lie and cheat and work around this system they still intellectual property they hurt american business now they threaten american security now our personal information is on their computer and where is our president? he should be up there making a statement protecting the businesses of this country and the american people. >> they are still looking into it. >> come on. there is nothing to look into years ago over 43 percent of all attacks come from china now in the case of jpmorgan they're still trying to figure it out. what if they left an open door and they can

justice clarence thomas seems to think so. as more couples get married it will be harder for the supreme court to issue a ruling denying marriage equality. >> areva martin is a legal analyst and attorney. >> hi tony. >> let's be clear what the alabama state supreme court chief judge justice is saying here. >> there's more. >> yeah yeah yeah. was he really saying to the federal court you have no jurisdiction over the decisions of the state courts? is that what he was saying here? >> unequivocally so, absolutely he said the people of alabama spoke, when they voted to outlaw same sex marriages and he basically said how dare you intervene in our state and deny our people what they've already voted for. so he told his probate judges across the state of alabama ignore what the supreme court of the united states said today. and continue to deny those marriage licenses to same sex couples. >> okay so i don't know his politics. i'm assuming he's probably conservative. what do you think of this state supreme court chief justice and his

clarence in north olmstead, ohio. >> the state did absolutely positively nothing for me because i'm an exonoree. i'm the sixth in ohio history and the 140th in the united states to be exonerated. they do nothing for us. nothing at all. they open the door, they kick you out. get out. everything that i fought for for this country was taken from me. every last single right, for dang near 80% of my adult life. >> joe knows that he owes his freedom and his life to one man. >> if it wasn't for neil, i would have been murdered ten years ago, easily. and the state wouldn't have batted an eye. >> it was just a matter of i think common human decency and a matter of justice. i was astonished at how far wrong the system can go. and how slow it works. and how much is at stake. >> joe and neil travel around ohio speaking out against the death penalty. >> i started finding out the things that he was telling me could be independently verified. >> that i'm here is a blessing from god. i prayed for him to end this nightmare. i wanted it right then and there, but he answered my prayers. it just took 22 y

poppy bush picked suitor and clarence thomas ann as his nominees to the supreme court. he got to two. since then ever president has gotten two. clinton chose ruth bader ginsburg and -- president obama so far has chosen sonya sotomayor and kagen. supreme court nominations are the most important things that a president does ever. not every it ration of the supreme court hears brown versus board of education, or bush v. gore or row v. wade. not every it ration of the court hears cases that become household names and change the world drastically and forever. but the supreme court of the united states has breathtaking power on myriad issues. nothing else in government is like it. even right now we're awaiting oral arguments on cases that may eliminate the whole of obamacare in one fail swoop. millions of people losing their health insurance all at once. they could do that. they will hear the oral arguments and rule in the next few months. another case could legalize same-sex marriage nationwide or not. we're waiting another case that could ban the way that states kill their