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But we begin our show tonight with the historic civil rights cases that are going to be argued starting tomorrow in the united states supreme court. we now know what the ticktock will be like as far as how this gets argued. it starts at 10:00 a.m. eastern and the oral arguments in the case will last an hour. as always, there are no cameras in the courtroom. no still cameras and no video cameras. and there will be no live audio feed from the courtroom either. but we do know that the court plans t...

Radar, including the supreme court. so unless we had had this enormous gay rights movement over many, many decades, we would never be at the court would have the question teed up before it whether gays are politically powerless or not. >> this is fascinating, followed by the doma cases, which are just as complicated, but also as far reach welcome the following day. i have absolutely no idea whats going to happen. the fact that chief justice john roberts lesbian cousin will be sitting in the audi...

Pathetic. does that imbalance in the politics here, does the fact that the spokesperson on the right on this issue is maybe gary bauer and the spokesperson on the left of this issue is the leading legal likes of both the republican and democratic party. does that imbalance, politically, affect expectations for how the court is going to hear and rule on this case? and should it? joining us now is kengy osheena, the chief justice of constitution until law at nyu law school. hell be in the courtroo...

Table for same-sex couples as for opposite-sex couples. so the range of options that we have with those claims are, usually people frame it as 0 to 50. its either no states or all 50 states. but there are actually three options in the middle. and i think that the court is most likely to do one of those threes. there are two ways to get to one state, a just california solution, we can talk about either of those. and theres an eight-state solution that says, there are currently eight states, will ...

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