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Breyer dissented again, short, sharp, and to the point. less than two pages. its pretty remarkable stuff, not particularly legalistic argument. he just puts it out there. justice breyer, quote, arkansas set out to execute eight people, why these eight, why now? the apparent reason has nothing to do with the crimes or are presence of absence of mitigating behavior or mental state or need for speedy punishment. four of the men have been on death row for over 20 years. all have been housed in sol s...

Youre considering bringing the considerable heft of the state of florida into the lawsuit. would you also like to consider this $25,000 check to your re-election campaign from the donald j. trump foundation signed personally by donald j. trump. this is one of the single biggest donations pam bondi got in that whole campaign cycle. sure enough, a few weeks later, voila, pam bondis office announced they would not have florida join that fraud suit against trump university. it was very tidy. very ti...

>> shannon: the suspect in the mass shooting earlier this week in fresno, california is facing arraignment. killing four white men at random wanting to kill as many white people as possible. theyre charging him with first degree murder. investigators still working to assembly their case for the other three. >> bill: a teacher causing quite a stir with one artists commentary. the piece at the university of alaska anchorage depicting captain america holding the presidents severed head and hillary ...

Deported originally, that is the crux of the information that they want to get at. that is where the attorney and the government, that is where they absolutely divide. thats where that information lies. rosa, thank you so much. so, as rosa laid out, those are some of the facts of the case. lets now get to the judge that unwittingly became such a major issue in the 2016 campaign. cnn legal analyst paul calen is here for this. a couple quick things for us, not legal scholars like you -- are these ...

Himself, judges have an obligation to remove themselves from a case when there is an appearance of impropriety, that will erode the public confidence in the judicial system or when they possess an actual bias. again, this situation, it would be a government lawyer asking him to recuse himself. >> jenna: cases are assigned at random, right? there is no way to predict that this was the reason why. >> they are randomly selected based upon the district. this judge did not go to say, i want this case...

Permission. joining me now is danny cevallos. the fact that judge curiel is going to have the case, what are the chances? >> in this particular district, hes going to be assigned at random. its something of a coincidence that hes back in the news for this reason because when judges are assigned, they are done according to a wheel. this is truly a random assignment, to be sure. >> coincidental at best. just to be clear, judge curiel is not going to decide the dreamers fate, shall we say. hes real...

Hes doing this and i look forward to going before a jury, not this judge. >> why did you refer to his ethnicity, donald? >> because his heritage is mexican. >> so what? >> because i want to build a wall. >> msnbcs chief local correspondent ari melber with more. how did this particular case get assigned to judge curiel? >> randomly. >> completely randomly? >> total random. >> as is the case with all these judicial assignments? >> thats correct. theyre circulated that way. it comes in through an a...

Hes now suing the government for access to records explaining how he got deported. the judge selected to preside over the case is this man, curiel, who was assigned at random. now, you may remember that then-candidate trump repeatedly attacked curiel over his mexican heritage, as he oversaw the lawsuit against trump university. >> i have a judge who is a hater of donald trump. a hater. hes a hater. his name is gonzalo curiel. >> hes a mexican. were building a wall between here and mexico. the an...

Together, i dont care what particular terms you use, it is most certainly a form of terrorism and something that the police know the rest of our national security agencies hopefully under president trump can now take their handcuffs and blindfolds off and take a good look at and try to keep safe from. >> dana: we know that all the victims were white. we also as i understand knew they were all random and anonymous to him. whilst we know about the victims tonight? >> they were all white men chosen...

Drew police to the east side of erie on sunday. >> we searched that area initially on sunday when we got that ping up in that area of erie, p.a. we were in the process today of doing a more thorough search of that area when this transpired. >> reporter: but it was todays tip from a mcdonalds drive-through employee that led police to stephens. the 37-year-old took off, leading police on a two-mile chase, ending when police forced him to lose control of his car. >> as the officers approached that ...