Loving Vs News Today

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There might be five votes for overruling it. and thomas said hes already one of them. if you look at the three trump appointees and look at alito. you can get to five quickly on that. >> why doesnt he feel the same about interracial marriage? >> well, lets not be coy about that. everybody knows hes married to a white woman. and so some people think hes not talking about loving vs. virginia. the interracial case. in his defense, that case was also about privacy. like the abortion cases. but it al...

Rewarding rhenquist. how does he go against roe v. wade? when it would pass his standard. >> fair question. >> he praises it. for stemming the tide against this flow of rights. this is basically the sort of whole rational for the federalist society existing. this whole conservative movement of which it is now sort of having its climax moment. where it could retake the court and swing the far right for a generation. they believe there was sort of all the efforts to desegregate schools and creatin...

When he said an oral argument that this case of obergefell and the board of the gay rights movement as was done to brown. he compared this case before us today to loving vs. virginia, the 19 67 case, the right to engage in an interracial marriage 16 states at the time when it was decided. very very analogous in terms of the numbers to what happened today. i think more importantly, melissa, this is not only about liberty but equality and the two things interlocked and chief justice warrens opinio...

Who are prepared to strike it down. the problem is the middle, justice kennedy, who is the key vote here. hes the author of the two most important gay rights rulings in the courts history, for whatever reason isnt ready to go there. >> rob reiner, how important has hollywood been? has hollywood played the same role on same-sex marriage that baseball basically played on integration when they were essentially a decade ahead of the countrys politicians on civil rights? "all in the family" did the f...

Hes the author of the two most important gay rights rulings in the courts history, for whatever reason isnt ready to go there. >> rob reiner, how important has hollywood been? has hollywood played the same role on same-sex marriage that baseball basically played on integration when they were essentially a decade ahead of the countrys politicians on civil rights? "all in the family" did the first ever show featuring a homosexual character. >> i dont know about whether or not hollywood has played ...

Featuring a homosexual character. >> i dont know about whether or not hollywood has played a role or not, but, you know, here is the thing. were talking about a civil right. i mean, to talk about, you know, polls and public opinion when it comes to civil rights, you know, where was the public? like you said in loving vs. virginia. where was the public, our founding fathers, when they said slavery was okay, or women werent allowed to vote? these are civil rights issues and there is one group of p...

One lesson of the two cases back to back is that the court really did seem very reluctant to get involved in the california decision -- in the california proposition 8 matter, that the -- the -- that at least for the time being, they were inclined to let states decide same-sex marriage on their own. that they were certainly not ready to impose a 50-state solution in the way that there was a 50-state solution to stopping racial intermarriage in 1967 in the case of loving vs. virginia. leaving it ...

One? one of the cases, the case of loving vs. virginia about interracial marriage, the freedom to marry is important to all people. what gay people are seeking here is the same freedom to marry as other loving and committed couples share in, and they are saying, were saying that there is no good reason for excluding gay couples from the freedom to marry. in the excerpts you plays in the court. justice kagan and others asked questions, and the attorneys on the anti gay side were unable to come up...

Open the door a little wider. we were debating marriage equality in new york. there were a lot of arguments about its effect on religious institutions it it doesnt create problems for religious institutions or opposite sex marriages. they were down to this argument that the state has an interest in pro creation that somehow well be damaged. that argument, literally laughter in the court during that part of the argument. were at the point where neither this case or if they do duck it and just uph...