you need to know this in are more reasons why supreme court justice clarence thomas should be impeached news that air times reported last week that justice thomas is actually accept being generous favors from right wing millionaire arlen crowe of trammell crow construction fame and fortune along with giving millions of dollars to the republican party and right wing groups like swift boat veterans for truth arlen crow has also led to justice thomas with tens of thousands of dollars in gifts including a fifteen thousand dollars bible that once belonged to frederick douglass crowe also cut justice thomas' wife half million dollar check so that she could start her very own tea party lobby group for arm dedicated to repealing obamacare a case by the way that her husband will likely decide when the supreme court determines the constitutionality of the health reform law in coming months so. now add this misdeed to the laundry list of bad behavior by justice thomas from an ethical fund raising for not disclosing his wife's right wing income to obvious conflicts of interest on the bench all of w

then he learned that he didn't lie to subscribe i came to be aware that the people around clarence thomas who had helped me write that account. didn't believe the account themselves same with rocks troopergate story that led to the pollen jones lawsuit the judge dismissed that case because it had no merit. in other words it was a frivolous lawsuit and that whole thing led to president clinton's impeachment. i just couldn't. what i was doing anymore once i realized what it was he'd been working for a newspaper magnate richard mellon scaife who paid the american spectator magazine two million dollars to dig up dirt on the clintons the information didn't need to be true just damaging the conservative movement also had a hidden media agenda well they claim that the complaint is one of liberal bias i think and i've looked pretty carefully at the sun i've looked at many of the studies that claim this at the end of the day the real goal is to disable journalism from being able to do its job independently and neutrally jane a cree and her husband steve wilson were an award winning investigative r

. >> earlier he called out clarence thomas who had his own issues with sexual harassment in the past with his own financial ties for organizations wanting health care reform. >> he's carved out this role of democratic spokesperson. >> in 2008, winter sponsored a bill to determine the number of visas for runway models. it was just economics to bring jobs to new york but as congressman is connected. >> his wife works for secretary of state hillary clinton, and her husband, former president bill clinton presided over their marriage. in the dailies show jon stewart is a college friend. >> that was christian reporting and of course this has sort of been a hot topic and raises questions of where the lines in fidelity line. can it be considered cheating? where's the line into people involved never actually meet one another that you can leave your thoughts on our facebook page. >> you work hard for your money and you expect a certain level of customer service when you spend it. when you don't spend if you get frustrated. >>> two thirds of those surveyed say they got so upset in the last year

. >> reporter: justice clarence thomas arked that there's no first -- argued that there's no first amendment right to speak to minors without going through their parents. games may be too violent. sometimes they just shrug their shoulders and -- and shay, they will -- say, they will just see it in school or at their friend's home. >>> we have a developing story about a crime scene. police have blocked off the intersection of 81st avenue and international boulevard in east oakland. officers are not giving much information at this time. but it may be the location of a deceased person. more information on the person and on later newscasts and on ktvu.com. >>> union police are investigating a shooting say it happened at a -- at the same house where two other people were killed. police found a 22-year-old latino man suffering from gunshot wounds. >> the initial information is the suspect approached on foot. i don't have a race. i have dark clothing and that's it. >> the victim is lit listed in critical -- is listed in critical condition but is expected to survive. police say there were two other

so that's why i dedicated me book to my father, who cut me off, and clarence thomas at the same time. both of their guidance in any life cope sided. >> -- in my life coincided. >> i wanted to root for the takedown or clarence thomas. i remember patricia schroeder walking up the steps with these ladies and saying, we're going to take a stand against the guy for sexual harassment, serial sexual harassingment, so i watched the hearings like a spectator who wanted to see somebody mauled, likelyons mauling romans, and i watched the entire thing. i went from wanting him to be taken down to wondering, where is the beef? what's going here? i don't understand the color commentary on the screen, where they're saying this is outrageous. i didn't understand the bumper stickers going by me on the street saying, i believe aneat attempt i said, i believe anita what? what's going on here? i don't understand what going on here? everything that i knew, everything i picked up at college in my american studies, cultural marxist, opresser, black people are always right, white people are always wrong. i di

it was brutal and that is why i dedicated the book to my father, who cut me off and clarence thomas at the same time. both of their guidances in my life coincided. >> host: that is a good segue back to the hearing. >> guest: yeah. i went for my job and i started watching the hearings wanted to root for the takedown of clarence thomas. i watched the television set in the television set told me that this was a bad man and the newspapers told me he was a bad man. and i remember eleanor shmiel, remember patricia schroeder walking up the steps and saying this guy, we are going to take a stand against this guy for sexual harassment, serial sexual harassment. so i watch these hearings like a spectator wanted to see somebody fall, like ed lyons mulling the romans. i watch day one and watch the to and watch the entire thing. i went from wanting him to be taken down to wondering where's the beef lacks what is going on here? i don't understand what i'm watching. i don't understand the color commentary that is on the screen where they are saying oh this is outrageous. i didn't understand the bumpe

supreme court, justice clarence thomas said while janus served as an advisor to the funds, the funds themselves were organized under a separate business trust, making that trust responsible for the statements. dissenting justices argued the suit should be allowed given the company's close relationship with the funds. >> susie: in the commentary tonight? finding common ground on the nation's economic future. here's jared bernstein, senior fellow at the center on budget and policy priorities and former chief economist to vice president joe biden. >> the current debate over economic policy is generating a lot more heat than light. the debt ceiling, the budget, medicare, tax policy, stimulus. in each case, the stakes are high, both for the broad american middle class and for global investors. but beyond these specific policy disagreements, i fear that we're not getting to the common thread at the heart of these issues. what do we want the role of government to be in our lives? what is it that government does best and markets do least well? we have the freest market economy in the world,

a pet project of clarence thomas who grew up here.anonymous donor have been a headache for thomas the times reports the donor is texas real estate typhoon who has given millions to conservative causes. what's the issue here? liberal groups and the center for american progress claim a it's pattern of lucrative gives and favors achl $15,000 bust of abraham lincoln private plane rides last reported in 2002 on his disclosure form and a donation to a library with a wing named in his honor >> you don't want to appear in front of a judge if the judge received a $15,000 gift from someone who wants the opposite out come in the case. >> neither had cases before the u.s. supreme court. the concerns from advocacy groups go beyond that. could ties affect the out come of a case. thomas attended the conferences organized by conservatives. thomas's wife is still on the payroll of liberty central, a nonprofit she founded that shares the goals of the tea party. thomas did not disclose his wife's income and had to file corrected forms going back 13 year

happen with clarence thomas in a certain way, right, you know? in a more evil way, many of us have gotten comfortable because rock is in the white house, but he cannot be most effective unless we are on his ass, right? we voted, so i will go home now, and see you in four years. the republicans, the tea party, all these folks, they are on his ass, so if you believe that all that there is power in that position, and there are folks that make convincing arguments about a black face on white supremacy, so there is complications, but can progress be made? can progress be made with that position? absolutely. but while we honor and acknowledge that, we have to look at the masses of folks, and i think jamal represents the conditions of the masses that we need to be focused on. >> did you want to say something? it looked as though you were starting to say something. >> i will say, he said the same thing i was thinking. people ask me how i feel about having an african-american president. i said i had ambivalent feelings. on the one hand, i know that he is

conservative leaning clarence thomas, and liberal leaning stephen breyer. he concluded that extremely violent games can harm children by rewarding them for being violently aggressive in play, and thereby often teaching them to be violently aggressive in life. 12-year-old sam strongham of tacoma park, maryland, had to get permission from his mom tracy before guying golden eye 007, a game that's rated teen. >> you just have to be aware. and you just, i think, have to have an open conversation with your children all the time. >> reporter: nancy cordes, cbs news, washington. >>> now to the battle in libya. moammar gadhafi is rejecting war crime charges. arrest warrants for gadhafi and others were issued by the international criminal court in the hague. they claim gadhafi is responsible for killing hundreds of civilians. but, he says the charges are politically motivated. >>> in syria, about 200 opposition leaders held a rare meeting in damascus. they demanded a peaceful transition to democracy yesterday, and an end to the rule of president assad. >>> iran is in

i would like to make a comment about clarence thomas and his wife. i think he is a crook. him and his wife both. he is taking money from the different organizations and making rulings. host: what do you think should be done? caller: the wife getting our money and he is taking and making rulings on different decisions like that. this should not be going on. host: let's go to jack of the democrats' line in detroit, michigan. good morning. caller: thanks for c-span. the caller from georgia just go in little of my thunder in how money has been affecting our supreme court cases. host: how do you see it playing out and what are the ramifications? caller: it sort of started out two years ago with the citizens united case which i believe was the worst decision the supreme court has made in decades. it gives them as you know, corporations with billions of dollars of the same rights as a citizen who might have not two cents. but at least we all still have one vote. so no matter how much money -- will also have one vote and we can vote for presidents that appoint the justices that we

from connecticut weighed in on the growing ethics questions surrounding supreme court justice clarence thomas thomas murphy introduced legislation to force justices to follow the same code of ethics that apply to all other federal judges and then whether justice thomas is still fit to serve on the bench saying. this is starting to rise to the level where he should start to be some real investigations as to whether kind of times he continued service justice on the supreme court it's time for congress to step up in performance constitutionally mandated job of keeping an eye on the run amok. in august murphy is doing just that and others need to drive the bad the jersey governor chris christie earlier this month christie caught some flak for this exchange public access program in new jersey to work. you don't tend your children to public schools you send them to private school so i was wondering why you think it's fair to be cutting school funding to public schools what's your name what's your name guys real quick is the governor's talking what is it gail talk to you know you know what first off

. >> reporter: two justices disagreed, conservative leaning clarence thomas and liberal leaning stephen breyer. he concluded that extremely violent games can harm children by rewarding them for being violently aggressive in play and thereby often teaching them to be violently aggressive in life. 12-year-old sam strong of tacoma park, maryland, had to get permission from his mom tracy before buying "golden eye 007," a game that's rated "teen." >> you just have to be aware and you i think have to have an open conversation with your children all the time. >> reporter: she's an example of why so many supporters of the california law say today's decision isn't a total defeat because that this long and very public court battle encouraged a lot of parents to think twice about what their children are watching and playing, scott. >> pelley: nancy, i wonder, does this spell the end of attempts to regulate video game sales? >> well, the law in california was never implemented because they were concerned about this court challenge. it's now been struck down in six other states as well. the authors

that's why i dedicated the book to my father who cut me off and clarence thomas at the same time. both of their guidance in my life: faded. >> that's a good segue. >> well, i went from a weight chart that started watching, wanted to refer the tape down of clarence thomas. i watched the television sets and the television said tony this is is a bad man in the newspapers told me was a bad man. and i remember alan archdale, patricia schroeder balking at the steps, saying we're going to take a stand against the sky for a serial harassment. i was a spectator who wanted to see somebody mall, lions mauling and i watched the entire game. i went from wanting him to be taken down to wondering what's going on here? on and understand what i'm watching here. i don't understand the color commentary that's on the screen, where they say this is outrageous. i didn't understand the bumper stickers they were going by ministries, saying i believe any data. i said i believe any of what? i don't understand what's going on here. everything i knew, everything i picked up a college in my american studies c

chief justice john roberts justice antonin scalia justice anthony kennedy justice clarence thomas and justice sam alito these five men none of whom are like that by the people have transformed our nation in a profound way from a constitutionally limited democratic republic that our founding fathers created into a corporatocracy with the citizens united ruling last year as well as a slew of other pro corporate rulings that have become a norm for the roberts court the supreme court has ruled that money is a form of speech and thus can't be restricted in our elections so rich people and corporations those with the most money can now speak the loudest in our democracy and here's what's really important this was not a law debated and passed in any congress it wasn't signed by any president it was the decision of five members of the supreme court who are unaccountable to the american people and that's it in fact previous congresses and previous presidents have passed laws doing just the opposite providing corporations are meddling in our politics like it's own act passed in one thousand sev

it was last week and a very very ugly supreme court justice clarence thomas or more details are coming to light about how just how corrupt justice thomas is as think progress is reporting today back in two thousand and one thomas accepted a fifteen thousand dollars plus. abraham lincoln is your gift from the conservative think tank the american enterprise institute thomas then went to three separate cases in which the american enterprise institute filed briefs on behalf of one side and in each case not only do justice thomas not recuse himself but he sided with the american enterprise institute every single time so i can carve three more notches in justice thomas' corruption he's official the best supreme court drug money can buy and that's very variable. details on how apple may even be working for you from taking pictures of misbehaving cleats. and getting. into a little mirror military mechanisms to do the work to bring justice or to the world . i have every right to know what my government should do if you want to know why i pay taxes. i would characterize obama as the charismatic.

. >> that's not important because he did try to gin up a phony scandal of clarence thomas because clarenceife was doing advocacy work. so that with a judge being married to a partner who's got political work, and nobody is suggesting that he should stand down from that and never taken it up. as to the marriage, i don't find opinions. >> this will be an issue between the two of them as it should be. let's see what happens. guys, thanks very much. >> there is conservative republicans calling for a more speedy troop withdraw from afghanistan. we'll tell you where that fight stands now. a man who caught a policeman shooting on camera. a police shooting on camera. says he was harassed and threatened and still managed to hold on to the controversial tape. pure... and also delicious. like nature valley. granola bars made with crunchy oats and pure honey. nature valley -- 100% natural. 100% delicious. down the hill? man: all right. we were actually thinking, maybe... we're going to hike up here, so we'll catch up with you guys. [ indistinct talking and laughter ] whew! i think it's worth it. worki

if you go back some time ago to the clarence thomas nomination, there was a consternation among much of the black leadership at that point when he was nominated about whether to criticize this guy or not, and whether people ought to just stay quiet in the hopes that he would be something that he hadn't demonstrated that he had any inclination to be. i don't think that's healthy. and so i can -- you know, whether or not i agree with all of cornell's criticism is beside the point. i think he has the right to criticize him and i don't think it's anything bizarre about that. and i think it's something very healthy about it. >> i did talk to a number of people in chicago, black and white, i think, from the left who do complain who say that barack obama can go to egypt and give a speech or he can give a speech in the u.s. on the middle east and the world talks about the middle east for the next week. so why hasn't barack obama come to the west side of chicago or gone to detroit and talked about urban america? has he missed an opportunity, do you think, to put, you know, those issues which,

. >> justice alice-- alito was the main dissent joined by anthony scalia and clarence thomas. he said miranda was a bright line rule for police, something that was easy to apply. and when you looked at whether someone was in custody it was an objective analysis. you didn't bring in subjective factors like age. he felt that the majority hadn't shown why age was different from say education, intelligence. he said that he felt also that what was going to happen here was that you would soon see defense lawyers and maybe even prosecutors arguing in cases in trials that other factors, personal characteristics were important in determining custody. he also felt that the decision wasn't necessary. he felt juveniles' rights were protected a little later in the process. their lawyer kos claim that a confession was not voluntary. justice sotomayor, though, said that miranda exists precisely because the courts have found that the voluntary test isn't adequate. >> suarez: so where does this leave a policeman somewhere in america about to arrest a juvenile? must you always give that person

what makes this case unusual is the two discenters were clarence thomas who is the most conservative justice and steve bryor. the broad middle of the court found this case certainly one that was really much more about censorship than it was about children, particularly since there was no real proof that video games caused any direct harm on the kids who played with them. >> the court also handed down one other big ruling before heading off on summer break. tell us about this campaign finance case from arizona. >> i think in the long run, that's actually going to be a much more important case. this is a case that really continues the citizens united line of thought. i'm sure many people remember the case from last year where they said that corporations had a right to free speech and couldn't be regulated. basically what the court appears to be doing is looking at any sort of campaign finance regulation, in this case, a law that was supposed to even up the playing field between rich candidates and poor candidates in arizona. they said it's unconstitutional. any sort of limit on spendin