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That tipped me off that these people were looking for an excuse. these judges were looking for an excuse to throw it out. no reasonable person could debate that go ahead. >> yeah. i would like to meet that reasonable man. that tipped me off that their dumbest law clerk wrote the opinion. that was in the concurrence, that particular statement. what the supreme court is deciding in this case because this is a tort thats been around. by the way i have been flipping through the cases of intentional ...

That tipped me off that these people were looking for an excuse. these judges were looking for an excuse to throw it out. no reasonable person could debate that go ahead. >> yeah. i would like to meet that reasonable man. that tipped me off that their dumbest law clerk wrote the opinion. that was in the concurrence, that particular statement. what the supreme court is deciding in this case because this is a tort thats been around. by the way i have been flipping through the cases of intentional ...

Abortion clinics. so are we saying an abortion is a more sacred act than a man burying his son? is that more sacred than the first amendment -- >> bill: that is a very spousal argue. you are making. >> thank you. >> bill: is the supreme court going to respond to that? >> i hope so. what the supreme court has to decide in this case is can the first amendment coexist with a tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress? it has for hundreds of years. and much less egreej just cases. much les...

Three pinheaded judges two of whom were appointed by george w. bush. >> yes, they were. >> bill: they said in the opinion while reasonable people can debate the appropriateness of the westboro protests. reasonable people can debate that these loons are saying god killed matthew snirt because the u.s.a. doesnt persecute gays? reasonable people can debate that? >> right. >> bill: what kind of judge writes that? that tipped me off that these people were looking for an excuse. these judges were look...

Los angeles. all right. so miss megyn basically said look, the statute in maryland of intentional infliction of emotional abuse is a high statute. the court ruled it didnt get there. and precedent in appeal the legal, the loser pays the court costs and thats why they imposed that on the snyder family. i disagree on both counts. i know they had discretion. the judge could say have done anything they wanted on court costs. i do believe if thats not intentional emotional distress, nothing is. it do...

Infliction of emotional distress. i have not seen a claim as good as this one. this man is at a funeral for his son. they specifically traveled to this funeral. they hold vile signs up outside. that sin tent, foreseeable, they did inflict emotional distress. is it t. doesnt matter that he saw it on the tv later. emotional distress is there. not like they put this in some vile magazine. not like they were saying it on the morning zoo program. this were outside a funeral i would remind you here th...

Abortion clinics. so are we saying an abortion is a more sacred act than a man burying his son? is that more sacred than the first amendment -- >> bill: that is a very spousal argue. you are making. >> thank you. >> bill: is the supreme court going to respond to that? >> i hope so. what the supreme court has to decide in this case is can the first amendment coexist with a tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress? it has for hundreds of years. and much less egreej just cases. much les...

And a tort. >> never heard that kind of flavor. >> larry: do you remember that or read off of a prompter. >> that was off of the top of my head. come on, larry, you know how i do. >> larry: yeah i do. you sat down with stephen colbert to talk about marijuana. his need for bid. >> are a well-known pot smoke sir. >> wouldnt say that. id say that im a stoner. [ laughter ] >> you are aware -- you are aware that that is illegal, sir? you are breaking the law, you realize that. >> no, i, um. >> youre ...

Younger older than me within the federal workers pool. >> thats going to be the law of the land. >> that certainly could have been achieved. lets remember that there is going to be a lot of gaming in this system. first of all, someone can choose to pay 2% if thats a better deal than actually having insurance. you can be people that will only pay $700 for the penalty for not having it. theres a lot of questions there. what we do know is taxes are going up. not only does nothing in this bill drive...

Cant see the prosecutor and you cant sue the judge and the prisoner. other than if its an excessive force situation. there is no accountability. >> except the cops for negligence. you can sue them for a tort. >> the tort meaning where there is some kind of a wrong. the bigger problem is we have way too many people warehoused in the prison system. we should be focused on the people we want to warehouse and not somebody -- we throw people in for 16 months, three or four years in state prison for t...