professor in your view would is the biggest misconception about clarence thomas? >> it would be that somehow he was a shoeshine boy a that was put after his confirmation he is his own man i had a chance to do the jurisprudence of canton scalia and i admires him enormously and in fact, they have asked me to do the after word for the book with the paperback edition so i am going through information since the book was published the having done the book on thomas was easier and more profound a more consistent and he is a giant he is not as glib or witty or sarcastic in his opinions but he writes of opinions. one of the things he does is is each year when the court knows the big case is coming his way he will look at one particular issue they he has not thought through thoroughly in the past. he will write the majority opinion or the dissent's you cannot see all the things you want to say of those in the majority. so it would be 60 or 80 pages in length to enormously well researched in his statement on that issue of that topic comes up thereafter he will ride up attack

professor, what in your view is the biggest misconception about clarence thomas? just go the biggest misconception would be that he was somehow a shoe shine boy as he was disparagingly put shortly after his confirmation. thomas is altogether his own man. i had a chance a few years ago to do a book on the jurisprudence of antonyms kalina and i admire him enormously. in fact, they have asked me to do and "after words" to come out in a new paperback edition. so i am going through all of his cases since the book was published. and enormously able man. having done the book on him, it is deeper, more profound, more consistent, is a giant. he is not as good. he is not as witty or sarcastic and his opinions, but he writes valid opinions. one of the things he does is each year when the court does the big cases coming his way, he will assign a clerk or two to look at one particular issue that he hasn't really researched or thought through thoroughly in the past and he will devote an enormous amount of tension on one case. typically he will end up writing a concurrent opinion

a spir chul predecessor of clarence thomas spoke on our campus twice. we've always valued those things and think that they form an integrity that makes for a good and excellent human life. >> back to the selection of justice -- of the commencement speaker in general, you pretty much hit the a list with justice thomas. how do you top that for the class of 2017? >> well, it was a glorious day. the best i've seen and i've been here a long time. feel library after the conquest of carthage. he knelt down and wept. what is there left to do? >> dr. larry arnn president of hillsdale college in hillsdale, michigan thanks for being with us. >> a pleasure. >> film maker and activist spike lee was the commencement speaker at john hopkins university in baltimore. he urged graduates to be catalyst ts for change for the so-called 99%. he also criticized presidential candidate donald trump and paid tribute to the late singer prince with a reading of his song baltimore that was released last year after the city's riots. his is about 10 minutes. [applause] >> hello. that

we begin with justice clarence thomas at hillsdale college. then spike lee at johns hopkins. after that vice president biden and john boehner are honored at the university of notre dame. supreme court justice clarence thomas gave the commencement address at hillsdale college in michigan. he prays antonin scalia for his view of the law and talked about the impact it had on him. this is 30 minutes. [applause] thank you all. thank you. [applause] thank you. thank you. thank you all. members of the board, members of ,he faculty, family, friends most of all graduates. i'm honored to be here. i am particularly honored because my bride is with me. we spent quite a bit of time together and we like to have memories together. this is a memory. orenld like to thank dr. for inviting me. i express my deep honor and gratitude to participate in these commencement exercises. it's been quite some years since for jenny and i have been here together. we been here on separate occasions but rarely together. of course we have known dr. larry and mrs. oren for many years. we have been quite close t

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we begin with supreme court justice clarence thomas at hillsdale college. then filmmaker and activist spike lee at johns hopkins. after that, vice president biden and former house speaker john boehner are honored at the university of notre dame. supreme court justice clarence thomas gave the commencement address at hillsdale college in michigan. he praised justice ant anyone scalia for his view of the law and talked about the profound impact it had an on him. [applause] justice >> thank you all. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you all. dr. orion, chairman broadback members of the board, members of the faculty family, friends most of all graduates i'm honored to be here. i'm particularly honored because my bride is with me. and we spent quite a bit of time together, and we like, i think to have memories together. and this is indeed a memory. again, i'd like to thank dr. orion for inviting me. and, again i express my deep honor and gratitude to participate in these commencement exercises. this has been quite some years since virginia and

who i regardglas, as the spiritual predecessor of clarence thomas, spoke on the campus twice. valued those things, faith and integrity makes for a good life. >> back to the selection of justice thomas and the selection of the speaker in general, you pretty much hit the a-list. how you top that for the class of 2017? larry: it was a glorious day. the best i have seen, and i have been here long time. the conquestfter knelt down, e-mai he and wept. >> thanks for being with us. larry: a pleasure. announcer: filmmaker and thevist spike lee was commencement speaker at johns hopkins in baltimore. he urged graduates to be catalysts for change for the 99%. he also criticized presidential candidate donald trump. and pay tribute to the late singer prince, with his song "baltimore," that was released last year. this is about 10 minutes. [applause] mr. lee: hello. >> hello. mr. lee: that's weak. hello! >> hello! mr. lee: thank you. greetings to the johns hopkins university. i give thanks to president daniels, the board of trustees, faculty, administration, especially the graduating class of

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we begin with justice clarence thomas at hillsdale college. then spike lee at johns hopkins. after that vice president biden and john boehner are honored at the university of notre dame. supreme court justice clarence thomas gave the commencement address at hillsdale college in michigan. he prays antonin scalia for his view of the law and talked about the impact it had on him. this is 30 minutes.

> tonight on c-span, we will show you recent commencement speeches from supreme court justice clarence thomas and filmmaker spike lee. watch both speakers addressed the graduates beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >> congratulations to the class of 2016. today is your day of celebration and you've earned it. fort: the voices crying peace and light because your choices will make all the difference to you and to all of us. ondo not be afraid to take cases or a new job or a new issue that really stretches your boundaries. >> respect your summer of broad and real ship, rather than internships, and the specter of living in your parents's basement after graduation day is not likely to be your greatest concern. the commencement speeches in their entirety by business leaders, politicians officials onse leade c-span. the risks oft resuming commercial travel to cuba. this is just over one hour. chairman katko: the subcommittee on transportation security will come to order. the subcommittee is meeting today to examine the risks involved in resuming u.s. commercial air service to cuba. i now recognize mysel

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this year the, clarence thomas. thomas ryn, justice doesn't speak into court that everyone. what was your motivation for that? >> well, i've been privileged to know. i know he doesn't actually like to do things that. and i've been reluctant to ask him. but he's often top of the list of our senior class. so this year they talked him into it. they said, maybe you're hurting his feelings by not asking. >> i. i did wright the liter. and i said yes. >> is that the first time you were speaking to him before school. reather a graduation septemberings. >> he had been here for a few times. and he speak the ining a ration. first time i ask him for a commencement and -- it's too because because it will be a very long time before i could ask him again. what are you do think the graduates learned more from justice snoms what do you think they got from his speech? >> it was in my opinion, a beautiful commencement speech. in my opinion commencement speeches they're seen is how to live a good lie. >> the obviously thing to convince her is termination. they're leaving the cleng. it's about h

[applause] >> supreme court justice clarence thomas was the commencement speech are for hillsdale college in michigan, which he spoke a bit about his relationship with the late justice antonin scalia. [applause] justice thomas: thank you all. thank you. [applause] thank you. thank you. thank you all. members of the board, members of the faculty, family, friends, most of all graduates. i'm honored to be here. i am particularly honored because my bride is with me. we spent quite a bit of time together and we like to have memories together. this is a memory. i would like to thank dr. oren for inviting me. i express my deep honor and gratitude to participate in these commencement exercises. it's been quite some years since for jenny and i have been here together. we been here on separate occasions but rarely together. of course we have known dr. larry and mrs. oren for many years. we have been quite close to hillsdale throughout his tenure. we both admire the work that is being done here to educate young man and young women. i was fortunate to have had david morel, a hillsdale graduate, clerk

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obviously this is a georgia man and people are making the connection, you know, clarence thomas fromeorgia is african-american, conservative, we know the lynna alineage here. but he is trending on social media, people remarking to that very thing, that the one african-american on the high court is the dissenting voice here. >> reporter: right. well, he didn't go into the details like the majority did. he is a stickler, if you will, for when the supreme court has jurisdiction. there are very complicated rules about when the u.s. supreme court gets to review state court decisions, and that's what this was. and he said that the rules, they just don't allow the supreme court to have heard this case at all. for that reason, he said they shouldn't have taken it, they shouldn't have made this decision. >> so a technicality that he's pointed out there. >> reporter: exactly. >> pete, thank you very much. we have a lot more going on including a breaking news story. we're just getting in here, a planned parenthood clinic is under evacuation. this is in sarasota, florida. we have some live image

the sole dissenter was the only black justice, clarence thomas. here's jan crawford. >> reporter: the opinion by chief justice john roberts underscores the long-held principle: race cannot be factor in excluding blacks from jurors. but in the 1987 jury trial of a georgia man, the court said the focus on race by prosecutors did just that, demonstrating a consorted effort to keep black perspective jurors off the jury. the decision paves the way for a new trial for timothy foster, who was convicted of the brutal rape and murder of an elderly death. the jugstieses have signaled that oral arguments they were troubled by the case. justice elena kagan said the prosecutor's cut was as clear a violation as the court is ever going to see thanks to the discovery of the prosecutor's notes. the names of the potential african american jurors were highlighted in green and in this list of possible jurors titled "definite no," the top five people are black. georgia argued that prosecutors had flagged the black perspective jurors to make sure they were following ne

the justice's ruled, 7-1 with clarence thomas.is believed timothy foster will be granted a new trial 29 years after he was sentenced to death. >>> a flat day for the markets "today." the dow lost eight, the s&p 50e 0 and nasdaq dropped four. >> questions about what happened to egyptair flight 804 between trouble and when it crashed. earlier reports said it swerved and lost altitude. the data recorders that can provide some of the answers are missing. greg reports tonight from paris. >> reporter: the search for debris and answers in the crash of egyptair flight 804 intensified today. a french navy -- off the egypt coast where the plane went down. u.s. navy surveillance spotted two large debris fields. >> we are 80 nautical miles. we will continue on in that box, essentially. >> reporter: plane parts and human remains have been recovered. an egyptian robot submarine is on scene to assist. all sounded fine an hour into the flight. about two hours later, trouble. data receiveed from the plane indicated smoke and fire started in the co

the justice's ruled, 7-1 with clarence thomas. believed timothy foster will be granted a new trial 29 years after he was sentenced to death. >>> a flat day for the markets "today." the dow lost eight, the s&p 50e 0 and nasdaq dropped four. >> questions about what happened to egyptair flight 804 between the time it began encountering trouble and when it crashed. earlier reports said it swerved and lost altitude. the data recorders that can provide some of the answers are missing. greg reports tonight from paris. >> reporter: the search for debris and answers in the crash of egyptair flight 804 intensified today. a french navy -- off the egypt coast where the plane went down. u.s. navy surveillance spotted two large debris continue on i, essentially. >> reporter: plane parts and human remains have been recovered. an egyptian robot submarine is on scene to assist. all sounded fine an hour into the flight. about two hours later, trouble. data receiveed from the plane indicated smoke and fire started in the cockpit, spreading to the fr

this is a samuel alito, clarence thomas, antonin scalia list. >> previously tweeting this, "who would the donald name to scotus, supreme court of the united states, the mind reel, weeps can't tweet." he's done other tweets critical of mr. trump. either they didn't vet or they didn't care. >> i think the argument is they didn't care. it's an interesting list. there are people there who have different background. diane sykes is married to charlie sykes, a very big radio show host in milwaukee who was critical of donald trump. a big ted cruz backer. judge thomas lee on the supreme court of utah is the brother of senator mike lee who is ted cruz's closest ally in the senate. i mean, each name has an appeal to the base of the republican party and i have to believe they are going to be pleased. >> and then also, it does say something, one would think positive, about his attempts to unify the party if he's bringing in people who have been critical of him or are connected to people who have been critical of him. >> well, yes, but not to the moderates in the party, to the extent they still exi

he wa clarence thomas said for two reasons this was the wrong decision.reasons the supreme court didn't have the authority to decide this case, to step in and overrule a state court, but secondly, he said it's wrong 30 years later to second guess what was in the judge's mind when he didn't find any of these rulings a problem, any of the decisions to keep blacks off the jury a problem. and he said in his opinion the court invites state prisoners to go searching for new evidence by demanding the files of the prosecutors who long ago convicted of them. if they get those files, this court's doors are open to conduct these creditability determinations all over again. back to you. >>> the governor of virginia is under investigation. within the last hour, we learned the fbi is looking into contributions to terry mcauliffe's 2013 watching developments from our live desk. what do we know about all this? >> we're getting some new information from nbc's pete williams, including the fact these allegations involve a chinese businessman and politician. law enforcement

most recently he played clarence thomas in the hbo docudrama. >>> i'm angie goff at the live desk withing story northwest of phoenix. this is where crews aret the scene where a house good motion happened that killed a man. he was in his garage at the tim time.the blast may have been chemical in nature.he was in hi time.the blast may have been chemical in nature. neighbors have been evacuated. >>> a law cool couschool could renamed for antonin scalia. education leaders are discussing approving the proposal today. faculty have already approved the name change. >>> verizon and its workers are resuming negotiations to he sen strike. nearly 40,000 workers have been pick ketding. the union believes they want to freeze pensions, cut benefits and rely more on contract worker. >>> it's report card time for the major airlines. department u.s. department of transportation is set to release the hochtsly air travel consumer report card. the report will contain march fly delays, tarmac mishandled bag reports and other consumer complaints. >>> good morning. i'm pllandon dowdy. amazon set to expand th

knowing they play politics, clarence thomas, comes owe find, with judicial picks? of the matter is that look. i think you've got to keep control of the united states senate. that is going to be very important here. i think any one of these nominees you're seeing the left criticizing these individuals. why? because they know that they have a judicial philosophy like scalia. that is what they don't want. we have to be prepared if donald trump is the president of the united states to defend these nominees aggressively. that means you've got to maintain control of the senate. it would be good to get 60 conservatives and make sure you don't have a problem. everyone of these will be a fight worth taking. >> you can follow harry reid and circumvent precedents, just change them. i think this is important. do you see problems? >> you know, i don't. i see the real strong contrast with what the president put forward in judge garhand. he's got folks that stood up for the second amendment. his judge tends to defer to other agencies every chance he gets. we've got people like ju

he most recently played supreme court justist clarence thomas in the hbo documentary. >>> new resultspotting dangers of teenage driving. nbc's erica edwards shows us why parents have good reason to be concerned and what they can do to protect teen drivers. >> reporter: images of teenagers acting reckless while in c are unnerving. as are the latest statistics on fatal crashes involving teens. >> our sons and daughters are dying in car crashes at an alarming rate. >> reporter: safekids worldwide reports six teenagers are killed each day in a motor vehicle crash. and almost half of those accidents the victims are not wearing seat belts. a new safe kids survey of nearly 800 teens and their parents finds teenagers would be far more likely to buckle up if mom or dad made it a family rule. >> put your foot on the brake. >> reporter: kids and families with established rules and agreements about safe driving are ten times less likely to speed, text while driving, drink and drive or skip seat belts. >> it's not enough to have an informal discussion. you need to have a formal agreement. you have

johnathan, let's broaden out from the broad effect to the single dissenter, justice clarence thomas onl. does it speak any volumes? would we have expected any different? we didn't have justice scalia, so we don't know what he might have done but does it stand out as unusual or unique? >> justice thomas is very comfortable being alone as dissenter because he has deep principles but those principles in this case are not shared by colleagues. in fact, he's fighting a fight that the court rejected long ago on that question and on the more important issue of how this affects the current law, you have to keep in mind it was in 1880 the court said you cannot use race to strike jurors but then in 1986, they created a process to evaluate these claims. now 30 years later, the court, i think, is in an important decision because the court here is speaking with a very loud voice they're not going to tolerate this and these prosecutors really went over the line in a number of respects and in the closing argument, one of the prosecutors said to the jury, you need to deter the people, quote, in the pr

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