so justice james nelson, directly to my right, is the just on one end of the supreme court he was appointedto the court in 1993, and prior work in private practice and serve as an attorney but he served as a force within and united states army from 1966-1969, and graduated from university of idaho and the george washington university law school. justice nelson wrote a widely no dissent challenging montana's campaign finance law after citizens united, a decision the u.s. supreme court justices soon reversed or decline the opportunity reconsider citizens united without comment. just a for all for dias, farthest in the rectum is a former justice on the supreme court he was appointed to keep his seat later that year and after several state supreme courts held lawsuit damages were unconstitutional, karl rove and deny states u.s. chamber of commerce, excusing, mastermind a campaign to unseat judges who stood in with tort reform tort reform, including justice diaz, even prosecuting him on false criminal charges but he was acquitted of all charges. the steward beckham historic his store was a choic

. >> state supreme court justice james nelson and former mississippi state supreme court justice oliver diaz talked today about corporate money influence in state court. from the center for american progress, this is an hour. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> thank you all for coming. i am the director of legal progress here. it is not a pleasure to welcome you all this morning. hard as it might actually be to believe, we are going to take a break for the next hour for some presidential politics and talk about the third coequal branch of government. but in doing so we are actually not shifting away from the economic issues that really face all americans and communities across the country every day. in fact and a quick the opposite. whether you are an employee has been injured on the job or a consumer with credit card or a mother whose child was injured by defective products as a buffer or one of the millions of americans to have had their houses foreclosed on, he turned to state courts for protection. indeed, 95 percent of all litigation in this country happens in state courts. b

james, thank you. hillary clinton met with nelson mandela today. they had a small private lunch. former president bill clinton called on mandela three weeks ago. coming um, going batty over a picture of the first fan. the grapevine is next. first, meet carissa sanchez, mother of two here. >> i'm a single mom. i'm an independent distributor for a company. i work out of the home. my husband does, too. >> how the economy affects you, affects you directly. >> for people owning their own business and trying to start their own company. direct hit, if you will. >> you have two children. >> yes, i have two. seven and three. i worry about their future. it's a major concern of mine. as far as the election, one thing that is porn for me and i hope would be for other people, like i said, just not looking at, like looking at the whole big picture and now how it will affect us later. ♪ [ acoustic guitar: upbeat ] [ dog ] we found it together. on a walk, walk, walk. love to walk. yeah, we found that wonderful thing. and you smiled. and threw it. and i decided i would never, ever leave it anywhe

nelson is allegedly singing for the people that want to put him in jail. well the democrats do too. what about the democrats? >> common i know is performing -- >> just this morning they announced jamesnelson i'm not going to believe i until i see it. >> the other one i hear about the demes is reports of bruise springsteen, which would make a lot of sense. willie nelson's new album which is called "heros," it begins with a track that begins with snoop dogg who sings on a song that calls roll me up and smoke me until i have died. i have been inside willie nelson's tour bus. i will be shocked if he appears at the gop convention. when i watch the gop convention i like to play drinking games with my friends. >> it's a ripe opportunity. >> john: there are a few words i choose to be the designated driver, middle class, bin laden, and climate change -- i don't think climate and change are two words we'll be hearing in the same sentence at all. >> absolutely. but i would add that we probably won't hear too much about it at the dem convention either. both candidates don't want to pay too much attention to this issue right now. the obama campaign has made that clear. they will say you know whe

nelson. >> and i'm sunny hostin, in for paula faris. well, it is nearly two weeks, now, since the colorado shooting left 12 dead. >> and now, there are questions whether warning signs about suspected gunman, james holmes, were ignored. here's abc's mark greenblatt with our exclusive reporting. >> reporter: abc news has learned that psychiatrist dr. lynne fennton, was a key member of the threat assessment team. these documents that abc uncovered show that fennton wrote the policy on threat assessment. what's more, that by early june, fenton notified other members of the team about concerns about holmes' behavior. but on june 10th, three days after holmes bought an assault weapon, he told the university he was quitting. so, the assessment team never had a formal meeting and never inconvened, thinking they had no control over holmes once he left. >> i think that's a signal that you should intensify your efforts, not walk away. under those circumstances, most well-trained threat assessment teams would have gone into action. >> reporter: but listen to what the university's chancellor claimed early last week. >> to the best of our knowledge, to this point, we did everything that we think we should ha

. >> state supreme court justice james nelson and former mississippi state supreme court justice oliver diaz talked today about corporate money influence in state court. from the center for american progress, this is an hour. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> thank you all for coming. i am the director of legal progress here. it is not a pleasure to welcome you all this morning. hard as it might actually be to believe, we are going to take a break for the next hour for some presidential politics and talk about the third coequal branch of government. but in doing so we are actually not shifting away from the economic issues that really face all americans and communities across the country every day. in fact and a quick the opposite. whether you are an employee has been injured on the job or a consumer with credit card or a mother whose child was injured by defective products as a buffer or one of the millions of americans to have had their houses foreclosed on, he turned to state courts for protection. indeed, 95 percent of all litigation in this country happens in state courts. b

justice james nelson directly to my right is a justice on the montana supreme court.was appointed in 1993. he worked in private practice before that. he served as a first lieutenant in the united states army from 1966 until 1969 and graduated from the university of idaho and the george washington university law school. he wrote a widely noted dissent challenging the campaign finance law after citizens united, a decision the supreme court reversed. justice oliver diaz was appointed in 2000 and won election to keep his seat. they held cap damages were unconstitutional. the u.s. chamber of commerce mastermind a campaign to unseat the judges that sit in the way of tort reform. he was acquitted of all charges. the story go was fictionalized in john grisham's book "the appeal." he graduated from the university of mississippi law school and currently works in private practice. leading the discussion today is tom perriello. in addition to being a former member of congress, he is a graduate of yale law school and has a wide range of experience both in the united states and abr