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Issues he has created. the natural -- the birth citizea you can exclude muslims or not, i mean, all these issues never raised before. he says it and then all of the sudden the nation is seized with a debate over the merits of this. three days later, if he doesnt need it anymore, it disappears like the wind. >> by the way, wires reporting senator rand paul is talking about the debate coming up thursday and that he has been told that he is not on the top tier. and that now. actually officially com...

Which invests tremendous amounts of power in washington much more than any of us ever feared. >> i think it undermines the authority of the court. it undermines its authority. thats the long-term damage here. >> the texas housing case which says you can find bias by the use of statistics as opposed to actually finding and identifying disparate racial treatment, they justified that 5-4, justice kennedy in housing extending that into the housing law. >> right. and the left is going to take this an...

Country. again, all we have been doing is sitting here talking about washington expanding in a way that really is quite striking. >> and the irony is that gay marek has been spreading throughout the country through democratic means and now this one precementsemtpreemts it. it tells me that the claim that this is a conservative court, it duchblt really hold up. >> no i dont think it does. justice roberts was in the four-member minority on this case wrote a good opinion. >> the gay marriage case. ...

Language in the obamacare case. were not qualified. >> i dont wait tells you about chief justice roberts. the same judicial activism he denounces in one case he endorses in another. its very confusing. >> does that raise a question, dan, of the political motivations here for the chief justice? is he really thinking in his role as the chief justice that i have to be more of a politician here and i didnt want the court to overturn obamacare because the damage to the court from critics could be so ...

Testify candidates to be automobile to talk about these things convey it to the american people in a way that makes them understand why it matters to them. its not just about things like guaranteed issue and access and so forth. theyre going to have to make it compelling and they have the opportunity to do that. >> kim, what about the gay marriage decision? this is now part of the constitution, the rateight to a gay marriage. that takes an inordinately large vote. do you think that should be a f...

They dont leave their people without this federal subsidy. so lets remember whats at stake here health insurance for probably some 8 million people because the government argues without the federal subsidy, those people low and moderate income people would not be able to afford insurance. the stakes are very high. after an hour and a half of argument the outcome of this case is impossible to predict. >> so interesting. pete, thank you very much. appreciate that live update. straight ahead, fol...

Williams was inside the court. pete what can you tell us? >> reporter: tamron, i cant tell you what the outcome of this case is going to be for two reasons. the likely deciding votes in this case will be the chief justice, john roberts and anthony kennedy who often is the deciding votes. chief justice roberts said almost nothing today during the hour and a half arguments here. he did not pepper the governments lawyers with questions as he did three years ago when the obamacare case was here in i...

Strongest supporters of the creative way in which he crafted the majority opinion in the obamacare case. im not to suggest that motivates people for lifetime appointment but he is a human being and aware of where all this is going. martha: it strikes me this court has an opportunity in this hobby lobby case to make some larger potential comments on how all of this affects whether or not a corporation is a person so to speak. we will touch on that in just a moment. a quick break as a way for the ...

Says, but says all powers listed in the constitution are begin to the congress. if its not in the constitution, congress does not have the power to do that. john: but they do it all the time. >> thats true, they do. unfortunately, the elected officials have a huge incentive to do what they think is popular. john: and the supreme court, for the most part, has not symptommed them. >> the supreme court goes with joust overreaching, especially in the obamacare case. what happened was the supreme cou...

Says. it says all of the powers listed in the constitution are given to congress. if it is not in the constitution congress does not have the power to do that. >> they do it all the time. >> thats true. they do. unfortunately, the -- elected officials have a huge incentive to do whatever they think is popular. >> the supreme court for the most part hasnt stopped them. >> a lot of time the supreme court has gone along with the government overreaching. most obviously in the obamacare case. for exa...