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Forthcoming apparently from john boehner, almost certainly won't be about any of that. no, this has more to do with moves like drafting an executive order requiring private firms that get government contracts not to fire people because they're gay. and that after congress refused to take action on the same issue. that, my friends, that is a sort of tyranny republicans appear to want to go to court to stop. joining me now, dia , senior editor at slate.com where she covers the supreme court. you know what my favorite thing about supreme court decision day is, i know there's a dahlia column comin...

This lawsuit, the one that is forthcoming apparently from john boehner, almost certainly won't be about any of that. no, this has more to do with moves like drafting an executive order requiring private firms that get government contracts not to fire people because they're gay. and that after congress refused to take action on the same issue. that, my friends, that is a sort of tyranny republicans appear to want to go to court to stop. joining me now, dahlia lithwick, senior editor at slate.com where she covers the supreme court. you know what my favorite thing about supreme court decision day...

Legislative branch. and here you have a doubly problematic thing which is boehner sort of announcing a generalized loathing of kinginess i guess is the complaint. this tyrannical president. you're not going to specify. you know, i think one of the things to really understand is that in addition to not knowing exactly what the offenses are and who has standing to bring suit as a legal matter, and the court's not wanting to get involved, i think you have this other problem which is, you know, are you really going to sue about the fact that you've obstructed everything the president has done? >> ...

Is, i know there's a dahlia column coming. it's my favorite thing about big decisions. sit there clicking refresh. the nlrb decision, unanimous decision, was this a surprise to you? >> yeah, if you had told me this morning at 8:00, chris, that we were going to get both canning the nlrb decision and the abortion buffer zone decision and they were going to be unanimous, both of them, i would have said you were drunk. not two decisions we thought were going to come down 9-0. a strange, strange today. today in my column, i coined the phrase faux-nanimous. >> of course, because these decisions have...

Involved, i think you have this other problem which is, you know, are you really going to sue about the fact that you've obstructed everything the president has done? >> right. right. >> it seems like not the smartest tactical move, either. >> dahlia lithwick from slate.com. read her piece on today's buffer zone decision which is up now which we're going to talk about in a moment. thanks so much. overreach is not just for the executive branch. supreme court today unanimously struck down a massachusetts law establishing a 35-foot protective buffer zone around abortion clinics. in mccullen ver...