in the older justices.and it keeps happening. justice kagan, she seemed like the best champion in a long time and she said that she was going to carry this into the court. just a few months ago, she gave a speech where she was asked about it and she said i have been thinking about a. maybe it won't be the right thing to do. it's almost like the order of the court in new justices and they decide that families are not a good idea. >> justice souter said there would be cameras in the courtroom over his dead body. i agree with tony and i know tony has been the most eloquent supporter and the chances of this happening are slim. but i do think that they will be more receptive to increased audio availability. and they will release the audio at the end of the week and the arguments take place. i would bet in 10 years they will stream it live on the web in terms of audio. but i think that video is a very different story. i was shocked and disappointed to see elena kagan with the stockholm syndrome that goes on there

how are my justice fighters doing out there? today is invigorating and enlighten you to make sure we have social justice everywhere. i represent bay view and porter hill. so today i really want to share with you in the celebration and recognition of the 50th anniversary, i'm going to ask you to come up here, jeff. look at him. this is amazing, everyone. but today is march 18, 2013. today marks the 50th anniversary united states court's decision that someone should be defended at no cost. where journalist and concerned citizens will gather at the san francisco public defenders 2013 justice summit on march 19 to discuss ways to better fulfill gideon's promise justice for all where clarence combid gideon convicted to be stealing change at a pool hall. he wrote a petition to the supreme court from his jail cell arguing that his rights had been violated. he presented a victory for civil rights and justice. san francisco one of the first cities in the united states to establish a public defenders office opened it's doors in 1921. wher

in the older justices. and it keeps happening. justice kagan, she seemed like the best champion in a long time and she said that she was going to carry this into the court. just a few months ago, she gave a speech where she was asked about it and she said i have been thinking about a. maybe it won't be the right thing to do. it's almost like the order of the court in new justices and they decide that families are not a good idea. >> justice souter said there would be cameras in the courtroom over his dead body. i agree with tony and i know tony has been the most eloquent supporter and the chances of this happening are slim. but i do think that they will be more receptive to increased audio availability. and they will release the audio at the end of the week and the arguments take place. i would bet in 10 years they will stream it live on the web in terms of audio. but i think that video is a very different story. i was shocked and disappointed to see elena kagan with the stockholm syndrome that goes on ther

how are my justice fighters doing out there? today is invigorating and enlighten you to make sure we have social justice everywhere. i represent bay view and porter hill. so today i really want to share with you in the celebration and recognition of the 50th anniversary, i'm going to ask you to come up here, jeff. look at him. this is amazing, everyone. but today is march 18, 2013. today marks the 50th anniversary united states court's decision that someone should be defended at no cost. where journalist and concerned citizens will gather at the san

justice fortas left the court.earl warren retired and the case had to be reargued. >> why did you start with that one? was it because you wanted to show the anguish that judges can go through in trying to reach these decisions? >> we started with it because it provided a window to the court that was unique. we know very little about what happens in the supreme court conference room. we know more about what happens in the white house situation room than we do about the supreme court conference room. but because of some notes from the justices we had kind of a play by play of what happened in that conference room on that day. >> you have a photograph in your book of justice harlan's, a note he wrote the next day, as you say, to chief justice earl warren, saying, "i'm not at rest with my yesterday's vote." he was troubled overnight. >> yes he was. these justices are tortured by these decisions -- >> ten of the 15 cases we focus on divided the court five to four. having decided you're going to have capital punishment,

clarence gideon was involved in the justice system since he was a kid. he had been getting in trouble. >> trouble seemed to find gideon. literally small change had gone miss ing from this cigarette machine, maybe $5 total. that's the pool hall there on the bottom. some wine, some beer and a few bottles of coca-cola were gone. the witnesses saw gideon that night with pockets full of change. gideon found himself facing serious time in prison. >> i have no council >> why do you not have council? >> i would like someone to represent me. >> i would have to deny you request to a point you council in this case. >> gideon,000 this was unfair. >> by asking the court to appoint a lawyer, gideon thought he had the right to counsel. >> this right is a basic right to in in in the constitution because the threat that is presented by imprisonment and even execution is a threat that the government should allow to have. >> gideon had to represent himself because the state of florida denied a lawyer. the entire trial lasted a day before he was found guilty and sentenced t

he presented a victory for civil rights and justice. san francisco one of the first cities in the united states to establish a public defenders office opened it's doors in 1921. whereas gideon's promise lives on in the san francisco public defenders office which service 25,000 indigent people every year. whereas city of the san francisco joined with the public defenders and the legal aid lawyers to celebrate the right to counsel. therefore be it resolved the san francisco -- march 18th as gideon versus wayne right day as acknowledgment for the 50 years of the united states landmark decision as well as the work of the public defenders who continue to fulfill the rights. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. i would like to thank the board of supervisors and the mayor's office as well. i would like to share with the public defenders. ken is here and as well as dave from the public defenders office. [ applause ] >> i'm sorry. ron from the santa clara's office. key note speaker. this came out yesterday on the anniversary. she's a contributin

there is a place for the criminal justice system as well as the criminal bail industry. now we have testified along with catherine, our lobbying effort are basically this is what we look like. this is the lobbyist. we are not a high paid, i represent the mom and pop businesses throughout the state of california and certainly although hopefully our assurity companies employ their lobbyist. this is what it looks like. it not the chico's bail bonds. we are mom and pop and the majority of our agencies are owned by women. i'm eye i want to have the opportunity to say what we mean. legislator coming this year is what we are looking at at high cost of bail. yes it has to be locally controlled. we have nothing to do with this. i'm from los angeles county and let me tell you bail schedules are very high out there. but we work with the families, co-workers, and employers that want that person out of jail where they can continue to flourish in their society. the issue of -- well the pretrial is there is a misconception about which is fair and which isn't fair. i have to say for the

but the criminal justice system has not. and to address the solution and do in a thoughtful way to avoid incarceration and the impact of this young life is important. i think here in san francisco, we are in a long way of other communities recognizing the need to do this. and working with the young people to reduce incarceration and to involve the right services. i am excited about this. and i want you to take away one other piece. but the british are further away in this area, because they have spent the money and resources to look at this more deeply. but according to the studies by the university of europe that were released. looking at crimes involving young people. they considered them in the u.k. about 30% of the criminal justice system is impacted by people that are the ages of 18-25. unfortunately not 30% of our resources are dedicated to dealing with this group. what we often don't recognize, if we don't deal with this group at this early stage. they will also become the problem with our criminal justice system for

the justices were not about to and wy that. the snd oral argument and scuffled the may position in the bri cr. he withdre iit on his feet and advanced a different position, that the tucker act would pryou ride any compensation dch that the statutes could not be enjoined. the sentynsor of the legislation had been given time to understand. understeer the orito prtucl cha3 19ing --to snderstood the orito prtucl argument that it required in these. all they caravel was the arartment about the tucker act representative adams tried the eme it -- free himself from that team by telling the justices that the house and senate be reeen them had not fought a a tment about,he if should forget about that tujust er act. it applies on was ry suealecito they told the court that had not come up in this session. herevil another example. the year after he left the solicitor general's office he issued a credit card which caletied something that was legl in the state where the bank had its headquarters with the lre tl in states where customers used t

of its former justices. [applause] >> thank you. now, i am sitting down. come on. that's good. hobbling around. can you hear? yes. no? no. this need to be turned on? what's the matter? right into it. oh, dear. [laughter] now in new you're better? i actually did not get an offer for my first job, so let's just get the introduction chased a little bit. i happily attended stanford law school. in the process i met my husband to become a john o'connor. he was a year behind me in law school. we decided to get married, and i graduated from law school. we both like to eat, and that meant one of those was going to have to work. since i was out of law school of thought, oh, no problem getting a job. there were at least 40 notices on stanford's bulletin board at the law school from law firms in california saying, stanford law graduates, we have this -- we would be happy to talk to you about job opportunities. give us a call. and there were 40 different messages from different law firms in california on above board. so

there were references to it by the justice s.e was. >> charlie: we all know where the public opinion is. >> i think that public opinion probably has some atmospheric effect. it's not analytically relevant. plessy v. ferguson was wrong even though it was easier to decide brown against board of education in 1954 than it would have been in 1898. the japannese enterment case was wrong. the supreme court has held even though it took place during world war ii when there was a lot of anti-japase sentiment. the court ought to enforce the constitutional rights even when it's unpopular. maybe particularly when it's unpopular. but i think the fact that public opinion has shifted so much makes it easier perhaps to enforce these constitutional rights. >> charlie: the constitution then has meaning outside the courts. >> it does because the courts h.i.v. in our society. they're influenced by our society, and i think that's always a part of the atmosphere. u hope and almostalways not alwaysot often enough but almost always you hope they really d

we know they lag far behind other justice programs. they constitute about 3 percent of all criminal justice expenditures in our nations largest counties." i'm going to skip ahead. we interview lawyers, who fire appropriate motions and do many other things that attorneys should be able to do as a matter of course. finally we know there are numerous challenges in the public defense system like budget shortfalls. he acknowledged the challenges the system faced were not new and quoted justice hugo black when gideon came before the supreme court. there can be no equal justice when a trial a man gets can be a pile of money he has. what can be do? he asked the audience. the question resonates, echoing and bouncing off the walls where a player knows what needs to be done to fix the problem but no one can generate the political will necessary to change things. 50 years after combid gideon rights e eludes us. i want to a break from the reading and talk about why that issue is so hard for people to grasp and why reform efforts have been stymied.

information i've seen all right now marc we know that eric holder is department of justice. in the case of m.f. global it appears as though perhaps there's been a cover up let's go back to lanny breuer the assistant attorney general sixty minutes documented that in the two thousand and eight mortgage crisis specifically with countrywide he did not ask the appropriate wist witnesses questions there were the financial fraud investigator had significant information and that person wasn't question according to this report if you look at what's happened in m.f. global it's gotten more and more brazen you know the law firm that lanny breuer now works at is now employed at the same law firm he worked at before he was at the department of justice they represent john corazon and you can make the argument that throughout this process clear evidence was in view but it wasn't investigated and that's damaging this this process of not not investigating what is considered a clear criminal fraud is damaging to the financial markets one can make the argument that if you look at how the decis

in many cases justices, you can see the justices have reservations about capital punishment. >> guest: there's one case, the story about willie francis, and you did a lot of the research on that case. >> guest: it looked like a dry supreme court decision. could a state make a second attempt at an execution that went bad? when you dig back, you discover it has all kinds of ingredients. the year is 1946. louisiana has a traveling electric chair. they would take it from parish to parish, county to county. they would display the electric chair at the county courthouse at noon and invite school kids to make a field trip and look at the electric chair. don't do bad stuff, guys, because this chair is waiting. they then would take it inside, hook it up to a generator on a truck and invite the victim or mandate the victim into the chair. in this particular case, 17-year-old black named willie francis killed a pharmacist during a robbery. was put into the chair, strapped in. the electrodes attached to his ankle and to his head. and as one witness told us, the executioner said, good-bye, willie,

social justice -- getting education is a social justice issue. we don't want kids to feel they can't go to school or go home. we want other's worth intact and appreciate the worth. justice is a public face of love and 60% of kids who are discipline read likely to drop out of school, so if we attach the same concerns that we have for all of the students and comparing with the evidence base data that suggests there are a lairming rates of suspensions and explullions and how does that push the conversation or do other things that we are innovative with and coming up with real solutions? not just to bullying but all of the social factors that affect students and adults and there are several adults that need training as well. that's my point. >> yeah. actually the work place bullying institute which has good data i am told and found that 35% of american employees say that they have been bullied in the work place. that is about double over the figure for kids so this is not a kid problem, but so are you asking if there should be programs and campaigns

now we live in a justice preemptive justice, but they will commit other crimes in the future. i would say if we all now agree or at least many of us agree with justice kennedy that the result has been a prison system that is barbaric that doesn't belong in a civilized society and serious atonement and i think you would recognize in the california prisons to meet that. let me say why it's a risk. it's always so reasonable to see risk as a way on out of these. i don't think i need to remind those in the room that an entire population were incarcerated for risk. nobody was held accountable for it either. if you look at the way this is a risk, you see racial class is at the end of the day the right kind of community ties and is risk reduction. professor simon, let me ask a follow-up. i want to get an idea of what a system you are advocating would look like. let's say you have arraignment for somebody in a case alleging violence. maybe an armed robbery or sexual assault of some kind. are you comfortable with someone having a right to be released on their own recognizant under the t

department saying go for it here's a couple things about the justice department i think it needs to be made clear that there are people inside the justice department who are working hard to change there are brave people right now inside regulators who want change to happen it's in my opinion it's a minority that is essentially doing this and i you know i've run in the people in an investigative capacities and people in regulatory capacities who want change to happen and i think we can get there i think that this week we can make change and we can make a difference so you're right things i have never seen things this bad in regards the rule of law in the financial services industry and i think people inside the financial services industry need to stand up. no one benefits from this and no one outside of a small group of people all right mark mullin reading time and so much for being on the kaiser court my pleasure max all right that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert our thank my guest mark l.n. uncorrelated investments dot com

in many cases justices, you can see justices have reservations about capital punishment. >> guest: the story about willie francis and martin you did a lot of research on that case personally. >> guest: could a state make a second attempt at an execution? when you take back you discover it has all kinds of ingredients. the year is 1946. luis anna has a traveling electric chair that they would take from parish to parish county to county and does -- display the electric chair in the county square and invite schoolkids to make a field trip and look the electric chair. they then would take the chair inside hook it up to a generator on a truck and invite the victim or mandate the victim into the chair. in this particular case 17-year-old willie francis would kill the pharmacist during a robbery was put in the chair, strap den and electrodes attached to his ankles and his head and is one witness told us the execution of said good by willie and willie did not go anywhere. the chair malfunctioned. there was smoke and sparks and willie francis had minor burns but they took him back to his cell.

department saying go for it here's a couple things about the justice department i think it needs to be made clear that there are people inside the justice department who are working hard to change there are brave people right now inside regulators who want change to happen it's in my opinion it's a minority that is essentially doing this and i you know i've run into people in an investigative capacities and people in regulatory capacities who want change to happen and i think we can get there i think that this week we can make change and we can make a difference so you're right things i have never seen things this bad in regards to the rule of law in the financial services industry and i think people inside the financial services industry need to stand up no one benefits from this and no one outside of a small group of people all right mark time for so much being on the couch to report my pleasure max all right that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacey herbert thank my guest mark uncorrelated investments dot com if you'd like to send a