clarence thomas, jeffrey, supporting this ruling, this side of this. on its face, it seems surprising. what do you see here? >> it's surprising. >> i thought i might be missing something. >> i'm flabbergasted to see him on that. neil gorsuch and clarence thomas vote together in almost every single case. and here, gorsuch was with justice alito, as the only two dissenters. i'm flabbergasted to see clarence thomas on this side of the case. it is worth remembering. and i think people like me who think about the supreme court a lot, need to be reminded that these people are not robots. they do things that are surprising. i don't believe he wrote a separate opinion. we don't know why he voted the way he did. the fact that justice breyer's opinion, is very surprising to me. it's also surprising to me, that amy coney barrett is on that side. we know less about her philosophy on the supreme court. she's very new. the thomas vote, it beats the hell out of me why he was on that side. that's why we cover the news. stuff is unpredictable. when you see who is in th

i'd rather see a statue of conduct either, right, clarence thomas. i'm other other black people who have done positive thing in the black community. i don't, i don't see a statue of george. boy, somebody did not do positive things in the black community. i don't, i don't see it as something positive. anthony. go ahead. go ahead. clarence thomas, who was accused of all forms so many forms of sexual harassment against the black is not convicted of anything that all said, i don't know what positive things clarence thomas have done for the black community . he is not also, i don't know, just be very much more a career drug, drug, addicted, career criminal. what does he just, what does he deserve? a battery for. i mean, that's what we want our, our young men to model themselves after, particularly or bother say, that's what we want our, our, our young black men to model the model their character. after what we're clear, thomas is also a steward and a vanguard of a system. of mass incarceration, that is keeping many black fathers from their families today.

. >> the senate is scheduled to vote tomorrow on the supreme court nomination of clarence thomas.d about the accusation of sexual harassment dating back ten years. >> anita hill enters the room now. >> democrats were going to challenge clarence thomas on the basis of his conservative views. his race was not going to be an issue. but i think the anita hill allegations brought race back into the picture. >> the senate judiciary committee is meeting to hear evidence on sexual harassment charges that have been made against judge clarence thomas. >> he spoke about acts that he had seen in pornographic films involving such matters as women having sex with animals. >> this seemingly personal matter is being aired out in front of this jury of all-white men. and it created quite a spectacle. >> this is a circus, and from my standpoint as a black american, as far as i'm concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks. >> clarence thomas decided to fight back by invoking one of the most painful elements of black history, which was designed to point out the burden of being black. >> t

clarence thomas was confirmed 52-48. i don't have to remind all of you it only takes one senator to make us get 60 votes. ted kennedy, was vehemently opposed it clarence thomas, joe biden who was vehemently opposed to clarence thomas, no one said, out of 100 senators, no one said, you have to get 60 votes. that was the tradition. until the earl '90s when chuck schumer, the freshman senator from new york, decided to start filibustering on the executive calendar. the answer to the question is, the executive calendar is one thing, the legislative calendar is another. the executive calendar is now 100% back where it was 20 years ago, simple majority. i'm comfortable with that. that used to be the tradition. that's where we are. the legislative calendar is the essence of the senate. the very essence of the senate. change the legislative calendar and you have fundamentally turned the senate into the house and completely destroyed the institution. i admire the handful of democrats left in the same position they were a couple ye

there seems to be a lot more john roberts in him than say alito or clarence thomas. >> i think that's right. obviously, if you were to categorize on the court, you would say that justice alito and justice thomas are closer than the other conservatives are to each other, maybe neil gorsuch in some of those case seems to have been more on the alito/thomas side. we don't know a lot about amy coney barrett. we're still learning about her, obviously. and the other thing we need to remember, that justices evolve at times. not all of them, but a lot of them tend to change over time. their thinking evolves and it shifts with the tenor of the court and the tenor of "the times." john roberts who was seen as a strong, solid conservative, the author of citizens united case, which got rid of a lot of senate finance rules, very skeptical of conservative action rules, today is seen as the swing vote in the middle, even if he doesn't decide anything with three liberals to join at times. we'll see more fractured court than the 6-3 number that we tend to throw around seems to case >> all right. yesterd

clarence thomas -- "clarence thomas in the last -- and the last constitution" teaches you about how the supreme court has been wrong a lot. it is just a bunch of people making decisions. we should not revere them. we told him to account. then "america's providential history" is great for kids and adults. it is illustrated with great information about history. liberty university has online classes for high schoolers. he'll still college has -- hillsdale college has an amazing program. anything by dennis prager. i recommend conservative radio, not just because i am on it, but because you just listen and pick up information you can use to talk to your kids about current events. audible. get one book a week. download the audible app. you give that information. then you can move on to the next one. joseph: i would be remiss if i did not mention the heritage site. our guide to the constitution is online and available in book form. it is a terrific resource. i want to thank this all-star panel for joining us. >> you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend, on c-span3. >> h

supreme court justice clarence thomas has spoken and he says it's time to end federal prohibition ons no longer make sense. i did not see this coming. >> talk about a high court, the highest in the lane. it makes sense because you have 30 some odd states doing medical and recreational, 18, and a decision, the state figured it out, i'm done. i'm out. this is inevitable where it will go. once everything becomes decriminalized, because it becomes manageable, quantifiable and you can figure out the dosage. that is the safest thing. the only reason why people get sick or overdoses because they are buying thing unmeasured and antidrug from street level to manageable and pure, you almost eliminate overdoses. all of the opioid overdoses is from fentanyl from the street. >> jesse: i thought clarence thomas without their bowls. and probably it sounds like a lot of fun. if you think of kids are wasting their time playing video games, think again. a new poll shows half of american game players lead gaming with greater success in their lives. 42% said it is better life skills than what they learn

i think samuel alito and clarence thomas are -- they've been on the court a long time. i think they want to make hay while the sun shines, they want to move fast on some of these things, whereas roberts is more of an institutionalist. you see this distinction going ahead on a lot of these issues. >> look, i think one of the things is a lot of the democratic appointed justices look at outcomes and you can kind of predict where they're standing. you can't really predict on the conservative side which is rightly so. they're trying to apply the law. and as dan suggested what john roberts is doing is not balls and strikes when he allows political considerations to come in. the best way to keep the court's integrity and reputation is to call the balls and strikes and disregard of the political considerations which i think neil gorsuch and clarence thomas and some of the others would like to see. paul: when we come back, the gop's infrastructure gamble, the bipartisan a compromise gains steam, would a final deal slow the radical biden agenda or accelerate it? in a recent clini

was a little bit of an easier one for brett kavanaugh and amy coney barrett and even justice clarence thomasjority there to say you challengers from texas and other republican states, you have no injury here. you can't come up and complain about the individual insurance mandate when there's nothing your states have suffered in terms of a loss because of the law now. so that was an easy one to get rid of. but, michael, the one really complicated and different was this religious freedom one. because justices barrett and kavanaugh have both wanted more accommodation for religious believers. >> does the affordable care act, obamacare, end as a trilogy for the supreme court of the united states? or is there some possibility there could be a part 4 in the future? >> oh, yeah. i'll tell you there will always be challenges. there's still challenges percolating up toward the justices. but as far as the supreme court is concerned, they don't want to see any sort of broad scale challenge for sure. we can say, michael, tonight for our viewers that the act as a whole is here to stay. it's not going to be

judiciary committee, chaired, by the way, by then senator joe biden, attacking this good man, clarence thomas, attacking his integrity and his character and what do we see out of the life and service of clarence thomas but the fulfillment of the american dream and what you can fight for it and when you work tore it. and why do i raise that now? in a world of wokeness and in a sea of wokeness, all driving an agenda to divide this country by race, to divide this country and to highlight issues of division and separation. justice roberts narle stated and he said it was a sordid business divvying up by race and we see it every single day. i'm going to go through it in a minute. every single thing this administration, every single thing that the democrat led house of representatives is designed purposefully to divide us by race and we should be better than that. and there are things on the minds of the american people and we spent $6 trillion and housing prices are going up and cartels who want our border and turns the keys instead of siding with israel and driving up inflation and racking up moun

no, it's exactly what clarence thomas says it is. >> i think he's making a point that lots of people regulation in this country is completely absurd. it remains illegal, clearly illegal under federal law, to possess, distribute, grow marijuana. virtually every state now allows it in some greater or lesser way. the federal government has said informally to the states, we are not going to prosecute anyone as long as you meet certain conditions about keeping organized crime out, keeping it away from children. but the laws are explicitly contradictory and at some point they're going to need to be harmonized. the question is will the courts force them to do it? and i think that's what thomas was suggesting. or the smarter thing, the more rational thing would be for congress to do it, but congress doesn't appear to be in any hurry to do it. >> they're not working as well together these days. we'll leave that one alone. >>> moving on to topic number two, chris christie is the latest one-time donald trump supporter who has now got a publishing deal and a new book coming out and saying there

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clarence thomas said a 2005 ruling from the court, upholding federal marijuana possession laws may nowt of date. his comments come as the court declined to hear the appeal of a colorado medical marijuana dispensary that was denied federal tax breaks. justice thomas wrote because of the piecemeal approach, federal loss against its sale or cultivation may no longer make sense. 36 states now allow medical marijuana and 18 also allow recreational use. >>> up next, the first time it was a bear. what's it going to be next time? john cox who is challenging governor newsom plans to hit the campaign trail with something else, something different he hopes you'll remember. >>> after hours on the phone and several months in the wringer, one bay area mom's washer still isn't worker. nbc bay area responds next. >>> we see temperatures in the 80s around the bay area. but by this time tomorrow, mid-90s will make a come back. we take a closer look. >>> nbc bay area responds to a family in the east bay that simply wanted to do their laundry but couldn't. we all want to do our laundry. >> this customer w

students do and that schools are concerned about happens off campus on social media >> reporter: clarence thomas was the only dissenter. he said schools have historically had authority over students both in and out of school. this ruling still leaves the door open for punishing students amounting to threats, bullying, cheating on tests or violating the rules on extracurricular activities lester >> pete williams tonight, thank you >>> john mcaffe, the pioneering anti-virus software developer was found dead in a spanish prison where he was being held on tax evasion charges. authorities say he apparently took his own life hours after spain's high court ruled he could be extradited to the u.s. to face similar charges. >>> up next for us tonight, our exclusive first interview with doug emhoff, husband of vice president harris >>> the white house announced vice president kamala harris will visit the southern border on friday it comes after our interview in guatemala earlier this month when we asked her about criticism that she had not gone yet her trip was announced after former president trump said h

i'd rather see a statue of conduct the rice, a clarence thomas, other other black people who have done positive thing in the black community. i don't, i don't the statue of george or somebody who did not do positive things in the black community. i don't, i don't see it as something positive. i'm actually george floyd isn't being lifted up as a hero. but a reminder of the fact that institutions in this country that are systemically races, including i'm a police force that was acted to assist with the factor of indigenous land. and the capture of black bodies who escaped bondage is why we are writing these statues. one of the main features of last year's protest we spoke about in, in this program was pulling dian statues that cause the vision. a lot of rage, a lot of hatred out there, wasn't there. why put up more of them? i don't think that we can complete a statue of george floyd to a statue of, of say, robert e lee or andrew jackson. george floyd had nothing to do with the genocide of indigenous people. this act up in plan and the enslavement of defendants of africans. i don't think

clarence thomas, who voted against obamacare twice before, was in the majority this time. so was amy coney barrett, who democrats considered a grave threat to the law during her confirmation. obamacare originally required nearly all americans to get health insurance. the individual mandate. or pay an income tax penalty. in 2012 the supreme court upheld the law as a legitimate use of congress's taxing power. then a republican-led congress set the tax penalty at zero, so 18 red states led by texas sued saying what's left is just an unconstitutional mandate. but today's ruling by justice steven breyer didn't weigh in on the larger question, instead saying the challengers have no legal standing to sue because the law no longer requires people to do anything, so they're not harmed by it. and in rejecting this one the court suggested similar lawsuits would also fail. >> the supreme court has slammed the door finally shut on all of the major legal challenges to obamacare. now it's just going to be nitpicking about the details of thousands of little provisions. >> reporter: presid

clarence thomas, our lodestar in this area, he heralded a potential addressing of this issue when he basically said the court has granted us and expanded sweeping immunity through this clause, and it is time to start thinking about it. ok, let's think about it. the 26 words that reacted the internet are no longer sacrosanct. what we are proposing at heritage is to bring that statute more in-line line with its original intent. and i believe from 1996 and the commute occasions decency act, it was intended to not stifle innovation by strangling litigation measures in the early infancy of these companies that relied on computers and the digital world. so i think noble cause, let's get it back to where it needed to be. but the argument and what you mentioned goes beyond section 230. i think a fixation on section 230 is misplaced. and the markets, it is very important as we used to say in the special operations community, let a thousand flowers loom. so helping bolster the fact that these alternative platforms are being created to address some of the free expression issues that we discusse

i'd rather see a statue connelly, the rice, a clarence thomas, other other black people who have done positive thing in the black community. i don't, i don't the statue of george or somebody who did not do positive things in the black community. i don't, i don't see it as something positive. one of the main features of last year's protest that we spoke about in, in this program was pulling dian statues that cause the vision. a lot of rage, a lot of hatred out there, wasn't there. why put up more than no, so soon after an event, even if they're on the other side of the, of the argument or i don't think that we can complete a statue of george floyd to a statue of, of say, robert e lee or an andrew jackson george floyd had nothing to do with the genocide of indigenous people. this after the indigenous land and the enslavement. descendants of africans, i don't think that it actually does anything for black people to take those batteries down. i think again, it's just it just virtue, they're going and why wiping out history. i don't think it's a, i don't think it's a great idea and i think

things and when we talk about section 230 we advocate for a very focused reform so you know, clarence thomas, our lone star in this area, i really think that he sort of heralded potential addressing of this issue when he basically said that the court has granted us and expanded immunity through this clause and it is time to start thinking about it so okay, let's think about it. but the 26 words that created the internet are knows longer satisfying fit what we are proposing to do it heritage is just bring that statute more in line with its original intent. i believe from 1996 in the communications decency act it was intended to not really stifle innovation by that strangling litigation measures of that early infancy of these companies that relied on computers and the digital world. so yeah, i think noble cause and let's get back to where it needed to be but the argument and when you mentioned it goes beyond section 230. i think a fixation on section 230 is misplaced and the market so is very, very important to, as we used to say in the special operations community, let 1000 flowers bloom so i

that was the issue that year with anita hill, clarence thomas. it was the year of the woman. they were elected from the state and senators dianne feinstein and there i was and it was a great ride until i was gagging on the partisanship and that is why i left in 2011 to succeed lee hamilton. and i just left that after ten years and am planning my next career. and now i'm an author. by the way the quarantine was horrible for everybody. the one upside for me was i spent a huge amount of time in my house at the brooklyn center but i also. one of the results of the attack of 9/11 was the decision to create a new department of homeland security. can you share a little bit of thinking behind that and has the department met your expectations? >> i already said and i think you might be familiar, madam secretary, that you were one of the occupants running the department over the years but there is a back story and i do tell it in the book. the government wasn't prepared for 9/11. with acts of terrorism around the u.s. and the first world trade center bombing in spite of that our govern

ted kennedy, who was v him at lee opposed to clarence thomas.oe biden, who was vehemently opposed to clarence thomas, no one said, out of 100 senators, that you have to get 60 votes. that was the tradition until chuck schumer, then a freshman senator from new york, decided to start filibustering the executive calendar. the answer is the executive calendar is one thing, the legislative calendar is another. the executive calendar is now 100% back where it was 20 years ago, simple majority. i'm comfortable with that. that used to be the tradition and it is where we are area the legislative calendar is the very essence of the senate. change the legislative calendar and you have fundamentally turned to the senate into the house and completely destroy the institution. so, i admire the handful of democrats left who are in the same position they were in a couple of years ago when they were not only using the low buster but defending the filibuster repeatedly when they were not in the majority. so, i do think that it is extremely admirable that there are

brett kavanaugh and john roberts -- as soon as i see the graphic, i'll be able to tell you -- and clarence thomas sided with the majority opinion. there was justice alito and gorsuch who dissented. basically they said there's nothing this court won't do to protect the affordable care act. they were sort of disparaging in saying that i felt the bias was towards the affordable care act. >> i think the court had a strong basis to do exactly what it did, and had it actually reached the merits, we would have won that, too. there was really no merit to this case. it never should have seen the light of day. even the most conservative justices on this court could see there was no merit here and threw it out, and with instructions for the lower courts to dismiss the case. so it's a strong ruling, a strong majority. that's a great day for americans, to know their health care now is protected. they know, also, if there's another legal challenge, we will be right in there to fight for health care, to protect their health care. again, tens of millions of player cans would have lost their health coverage. that

supreme court justice clarence thomas handed down the only defense of the case usually big first amendmenth to social media could have a greater proximate tendency to harm the school environment that off-campus in person conversation but it was unsnapped has a private snap to only friends come down sir. does he have a point? or is she getting in lady liberty's way? intuit's nice party panel we have got ricochet editor-in-chief jon gabriel, i don't have on curses. we've got media podcast host and the spectator usa contributor it is a conservatory and reunion, l muller is back. democrat strategist radio host and fox news contributor leslie marshall welcome everyone. great to have me. great to be here. great job all of you for having me here. so john i'll start with you. what does this decision say jurisdiction of schools and what many school district and teachers unions the power grab they've been going for the last few years? >> they have to back off. this is crazy an area of social media it's crazy i'm surprised this is not unanimous. and like you i'm surprised justice thomas not join the