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Thought the attorneys general were excellent questioners he got a little off the answer. the last one is from george fontain from new york. the order of your guests you still hold a bruj against governor romney. shows a lack of impartiality. george, you must have missed it when this is what i said at the beginning of the forum. >> the order in which you will see them tonight was determined a drawing that was held prior to the event. did you get that, george? there was a drawing held. we picked t...

Expressed an opinion sitting as a supreme court judge now ruling on a case. i believe it it says if her impartiality could be reasonably questions she must remove her sell. here, we have the e-mails, a whole string of e-mails that we have not quoted yet that talk about, back and forth, people from her office of solicitor general helping prepare for lawsuits and build a defense. they were advisors and some e-mails have been redarked and advisors are specifically noted. >>neil: by the way, the cit...

Judge or magistrate judge in the united states shall disqualify himself at any proceeding in which his impartiality might be questioned. this is enforced by judges and others. its not inforcible by the supreme court. it is understood that we wound hope they would stand up and do the right thing. this is outrageous. >> its really a problem. it does cast a cloud over this proceedings. if he should happen to be a deciding vote, it raises a real appearance of impropriety. and i think as your guest s...

Courts to go over this dna evidence one more time. these are not defense experts. that goes to their impartiality. what they found is that the tests conducted on the bra clasp that was found in the apartment and the knife were just simply not reliable. jon: arthur the whole world is watching in case. does that have an affect on these italian imagine straits. >> i think it would be hard to say it does not. what jeffery said that is key is the fact they have not been sequestered. a poll just came ...

Should supreme court justice clarence thomas recuse himself from the decision on obama health care law? does he have a conflict of interest that compromises any claim of judicial impartiality? those questions are gaining force, as the high court starts its new session monday. the obama administration has formally asked the court to review the ampleable -- making it certain a ruling will come in the middle of next years election. in a same, the justice dim placed a health care law in line with ot...

Four or five years, he noted that there was no income from his wife, when in fact she received some $many his,000 in income from the heritage foundation, an organization thats clearly opposed to the affordable care act, and many other things for that matter. and that various visits hes had and speaking opportunities and the like, raleigh calling into question his impartiality. so for me and for the other 19 members of congress, who are saying, wait, wait, wait, we have to have an impartial panel...

Want, but then they also must stand by the kwons consequences of it, and that is that you should step aside if there is the appearances of partiality. he spec for the koch brothers. the koch brothers also helped to fund the heritage foundation where his same wife worked. is that not also a conflict? in 2003 she made 121,000. 2004, 131, on and on down to 2007. this is the income she made from the heritage foundation. the koch brothers helped to fund it, and none of this was disclosed in the justi...

Fight the agenda of the president. this suggests a lack of impartiality. it suggests a pattern. justice thomas has already been part of a majority, as youve noted, that have approved the pollution by corporations of our political process and starring in a way that would have been previously unimaginable, to now reach out and be involved in a decision as critical health care knowing how many americans suffer from the current health care system and that we finally have a chance to do something abo...

The health care bill and others and there were people who said wait a minute, you stepped over the line of impartiality. were stopping an attack on something that is good for america. were not picking on somebody. were saying you cant have it both ways. >> absolutely. you can be sure if there was someone else out there on the court and their wife was out doing what miss thomas is doing, we would hear about it every day. this is a unique situation. the thomas family has chosen to put themselves i...

To be an ambassador to the tea party and saying and being involved and earning money the way she does. it just really raised a question about his service. he ought not to be hearing this case. >> now, when we -- so people dont think were just being partisan here, lets look at the fact that when judge -- lets say what the rules say that a justice ought to look at. says any judge, any justice or magistrate judge of the united states shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartial...