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Pete: like any job you get hired to do your job whether you are ready or not. he is ready. talking religious freedom, death penalty, sovereignty. the idea is you think he will rule to the constitution. take the master cake case on religious freedom. you think he will be differential to those who feel they should live in a country with freedom of religion. >> reporter: that is one of our protected fundamental freedoms. that case dealt with whether or not the government can compel you or i to have messages and speak messages that go against our sincerely held religious beliefs and that is fundam...

Limitation on the use. the issue of same-sex marriage is largely settled but the issue coming up is when can people with the permission of the courts discriminate against gay people. the cake case, which the justices sort of dodged, but those cases are coming back. the conservative movement in this country wants to allow religious people to say, you can't buy a cake from me. you can't stay in my motel. you can't go to my restaurant. that is the cases that are coming down the pike. and those cases are going to be much more likely to be upheld, the discrimination against gay people is more likel...

Clarity on the issue. the ruling was 7-2. it was a decision that was fairly narrow and doesn't answer all of the questions. how did you read it? >> james: i think that's right. the bottom line is judge kennedy, justice kennedy, obviously grappling with two competing notions, the tension between making people be respectful of those who they may differ with, the government making people more tolerant. but also the government not railroading deeply held religious beliefs. that's the tension. everybody was looking to see if this cake case was going to decide which ones of those competing interests...

The decisive vote on abortion, affirmative action, probably on the gerrymandering case, the cake case. when you are that pivotal, do you want to give it up? so if i had to bet money, i'd bet he's not going, but i have to tell you, that he wrings his hands on cases, he is unpredictable and i think that he will be here too. >> and so the stakes for the president are enormous. his campaign words being used against him,is presidential policy in the issue of the travel ban, gay rights case, president not involved directly, but a big case in a midterm election year and the idea that what a lot of pe...

We talked about everything the travel ban means, but they got other big rulings. >> reporter: that's right. when it came to the travel ban, we are already looking toward next term when the supreme court said they will take up one important opinion. the cake case out of colorado. they agreed to hear it two days after they granted same-sex marriage as a right. a cake owner declined to make a cake for a same-sex couple when they came in and asked him to bake one for their wedding reception. the cake shop owner saying it violated his religious. the supreme court will, in fact, take up this case in...