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The realm of possibility, though it would be nulunusual, that th want to grant any of these cases, as well. we dont get the grants and well wail until next friday and do all of this, again. we cant tell at this point exactly what this means. the supreme court justices know, but only they know where they stand on these cases. were simply going to have to wait until monday at the earliest and maybe a little more time to find out whether they will or not take up the main cases were watching for, th...

Marriage that the state defines as legal. so i think thats the most likely thing that will happen today. but one of the cases that the justices will be talking about is the challenge to californias proposition 8. thats the voter-approved measure four years ago that stopped gay marriage in california. now, a federal appeals court overturned the ban and did so on a basis that was rather narrow and applied only to california. if the supreme court takes that case, then at the very least, it will dec...

Gets married there, theyre considered mayrried for state lw but not federal law and the practical consequence is they are denied about 1,000 federal benefits, tax benefits, survivors benefits, to be covered under health insurance. that sort of thing. it will have to decide whether that law is unconstitutional discrimination, denying those couples equal treatment. what the advocates of overturning it say is never before has the federal government done anything but defer to a states definition of ...

Norquists tax pledge? lindsay writing when many took this pledge they were in i different time and place. they shouldnt be bound by a pledge that was right for a certain time period. in order to fix our economic problems, all options need to be on the table. susie kaplan writes individual signatures so individual decisions. congress allegiance is to all people, not one. and this is from mazy, if they are just for the ones he wants them to serve, they should not be in office. thank you for all ...

Barbara from the lawyers committee under civil rights law. i want to find out what my guests think you should know this week. jeffrey, up first. >> every state that has voted on same-sex marriage has voted it down so far. this year four states will have slightly different but all essentially referendum on same-sex marriage. washington state, maryland, minnesota and maine. all of them according to the polls could actually pass same-sex marriage which may have a bigger impact on the debate than an...

simply seizing firearms purchased from mexican drug cartels by so-called straw buyers throughout the southwest. instead, says the report, fast and furious was part of a plan to let those buyers and the guns walk in hopes of identifying and busting entire gun running networks. instead, fast and furious guns began turning up at crime scenes in mexico and here at home, including the killing of u.s. border agent brian terry in 2010 right before christmas. his death came at the end of a lon...

missteps, poor judgment and an inherent ly reckless strategy. that strategy was to go beyond simply seizing firearms purchased from mexican drug cartels by so-called straw buyers throughout the southwest. instead, says the report, fast and furious was part of a plan to let those buyers and the guns walk in hopes of identifying and busting entire gun running networks. instead, fast and furious guns began turning up at crime scenes in mexico and here at home, including the killing of u.s...

instead, says the report, fast and furious was part of a plan to let those buyers and the guns walk in hopes of identifying and busting entire gun running netwks. instead, fast and furious guns began turning up at crime scenes in mexico and here at home, including the killing of u.s. border agent brian terry in 2010 right before christmas. according to the report, his death came at the end of a long chain of mistakes starting at gun shops. the gun dealers were reassured atf was closely...

The point is, you destroy those you differ with. you dont differ with them. they are not decent people that you dear -- differ with, i is that you on proposition 8 which was remaimed proposition hate. i want it clear to everyone, for the left, if you believe that marriage be between a man and a woman, you are a hate-filled human being. you are beneath him. >> lets be real. if he wants to take the money that people are spending at chick-fil-a and put it into anti-marriage equality cause, people o...

The point is, you destroy those you differ with. you dont differ with them. they are not decent people that you dear -- differ with, i is that you on proposition 8 which was remaimed proposition hate. i want it clear to everyone, for the left, if you believe that marriage be between a man and a woman, you are a hate-filled human being. you are beneath him. >> lets be real. if he wants to take the money that people are spending at chick-fil-a and put it into anti-marriage equality cause, people o...