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Its like to be gay, what its like to be denied the right to marry. the district judge rendered a meticulous, thorough decision and the ninth circuit did so. this is the issue that should go to the united states supreme court someday. the people that were representing and others like those people are not asking for anything special. theyre asking for the right to be treated with decency and respect and dignity and afforded the same rights that we afford to other citizens in this country. theyre n...

So eloquent. it really is, and i remember we talked about this when judge walkers decision came down, rachel, it is a letter to justice kennedy at the court saying, please, please, please, this looks like your romer language from that colorado case, please, please, please, take this and find that same right of dignity and self determination for gay couples. i think it is important to see what the ninth circuit did not do, which is glowingly uphold everything about judge walkers determination and...

The supreme court or to a larger group of the ninth circuit. if it goes though supreme court it looks like it is written directly to anthony kennedy to swing him in terms of being a swing justice. which choice do you think the losers today will make to appeal it, and do you think thats very important? >> it is important. i think that theres some reason to believe theyre going to skip taking it to 11 judges in the en banc ninth circuit court and they want to get it to the united states supreme co...

Gores lawyer and ted olsen was george w. bushs lawyer in that case. ted olsen went on to become solicitor general in the bush administration. a conservative icon and liberal icon fighting on the same team. they won their first round in federal court with a ruling that proposition 8 was unconstitutional. that was appealed up to the circuit court, which is one level below the u.s. supreme court. today we got the ruling from that circuit court. they found proposition 8 does violate the united state...

These are the principles all men are created equal in this country. we have got to get there. >> ted olson, former solicitor-general under george w. bush along with david boyes. thank you so much for joining us tonight and congratulations on your win today. appreciate you being here. >> thank you so much, rachel. >> a programming note. one of the couples represented by ted olson are on the last word with lawrence odonnell tonight, which is very cool. you have to watch that, okay? deal, deal. joi...

In which colorado restricted the rights of gay and lesbian officials and the supreme court of the united states struck it down as unconstitutional. but both in that romer case, and in this case today, the court said if you are going to select a class of our citizens, these are our citizens that are presumptively i entitled to be treated like other citizens and select them out on characteristics that are peck cue yar to them you have to have a reason to do that so. and the reasons articulated thr...

In a case called loving versus virginia, 16 state laws were wiped out, laws that would have prevented the president of the united states, his parents, from getting married in virginia in 1967. they would have been guilty of a felony. this decision is very much like that decision. >> you were clear from the beginning that you wanted a case that could win at the supreme court. you wanted a landmark case. as i put words in your mouth, you dont speak that blunty. could that be that case? do you see ...

>> im no expert on these matters, especially compared to you, but the ruling seems to be narrowly construed to aapply just to the situation in california, to not assert a right to marriage equality more broadly. is that the way that you see it, and did you expect it to come out that way? >> actually, i think its a very broad decision. let me explain that. in the first place, the court said that california was somewhat unique in that as you said a few moments ago proposition 8 took away the right...

There is another case that could possibly be a better case to get in front of justice kennedy. so thats playing out here as well. the truth is there are so many moving parts, and dont forget the supreme court is looking at so many landmark blockbuster cases in the next two years that has to factor into this. whether the supreme court wants to take on another huge mega issue when theyre looking at so many right now. >> i feel like its sort of always a big-time in whats going on the in the judicia...

Editor at salon.com. thank you for coming in late tonight. >> sure. >> in your cole lum, you wrote theres a real chance tonight will belong to rick santorum. how did you know this would happen? >> that was an under statement. i was expecting best case two out of three. things that are almost unimaginable at that point he wins all three. at this hour he is ahead big in colorado. we dont know where the votes are coming from. it is a big story for two reasons. santorum resurgence. you say gingrich ...