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Class. what do you do when faced with a conflict of interest, do i choose to forego the interest of my client or do i choose to fulfill the interest of another organization or entity? >> the army informed major wright this year that he needed to healeave his client and go b to the states, he asked the army for a deferral for a year to continue in this case. this time they said no. so now he faces this dilemma, accept the orders or quit. what would you do if it was your choice? >> march 26 of 2014, i submitted my resignation paperwork. one of the reasons i chose to resign was that it allowed me...

He's up against in this case, they are trying to pull him off the case midstream. >> whenever someone takes an obligation to represent a client, especially in a capital case, you have to see it through. when congress envisioned, they said you have a duty to do and that's to zealousy defend your client. when you take that obligation on, you don't take it on without seeing it to its conclusion. having been on the case for several years, i have a legal and ethical duty to see it through. this is irrespective of the 9/11 case. this is a scenario that law students would face in a professional respo...

Sheikh muhammad, mastermind of 9/11. that predicament i just described is what his u.s. military lawyer is facing. jayson wright has been assigned to represent khalid sheikh muhammad. in the u.s. justice system, every defendant has the right for a defense. he's represented khalid sheikh muhammad for three years now, but he's been told that he can no longer serve on the defense. he needs to drop out of the case and return home to the u.s. to attend a year-long graduate course that's required of all army jag lawiers at his level. what would you do? that was the question facing major wright. watc...

Of who i am in this country? but violate other legal mandates and protections i thought i had? i think that's the real concern here, and i think in fairness the court was aware of that when this case was argued, that it really doesn't just unsettle the narrow question of the contraception mandate, i think it unsettles an awful lot of presumptions we have about the law. >> and the extent of -- the extent to which we can apply our own concerns and restrictions and fears to people around us without the law interfering with that. fascinating stuff. i don't know when this is going to happen, but i ...

Of how he decided the legislative prayer case earlier this year, the town of grief case with huge regard for the faith of believers and sort of subordinating the objections of others, it's tempting to say he may vote with the conservative wing this time. >> if that happens. and i realize the way that happens could happen in lots of different ways. the ruling could be narrowly construed. talking about the contraception part of it. i know that some democrats in congress today were making noise that they would try to legislatively respond in some way, specifically on that issue of women having ac...