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Something. the court ruled you are saying two things. number one, i voted. which in this world means you are telling you friends today is the day. and you could be showing who you are voting for and that's political speech that's protected. >> interesting. where does it go? >> other states may test it and the supreme court may want to take a circuit split. with one court in part of the country saying yes you can do this. and the first circuit said you can't. that's what could lead to the supreme court. this is how people communicate. we think of selfies as silly. but it may be an important way...

Want to ask is this possible if they decide against usage in fair housing, can that then spread to our general understanding of what counts as discrimination? >> it absolutely is very dangerous for them to be challenging the results test in these kind of race discrimination cases in this fair housing standard in that it might have ripple effects, but also specifically because congress had never intended for there to be an intense test -- intent test. there's no evidence that congress wanted that standard. moreover, every circuit court, all 11 court that is looked at the question whether the re...

An institution if people have the perception it's splitting along partisan or ideological lines? >> yes. if i believe that that was the reason for the split which i don't. the fact that there's a circuit split makes it clear that there are different ways of looking at the situation and that the answer's not a slam dunk. >> nbc latino sandra lily sat down with the justice. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> another topic that justice sotomayor went after, affirmative action. the court will hear a case soon. you have her opinion of affirmative action, the viewpoint and clarence thomas. she ...

Unconstitutional. >> reporter: well let's see what the judges here think. they are here in the fourth circuit split equally republican a pointies and democratic a point he's. they are randomly picked. they are three democratic judges, two appointed by president obama. this is known as the rocket docket. these cases are decided very quickly. regardless of who wins or loses it should end up in the supreme court in a matter of months. >> reporter: thank you for the update from virginia there. we are learning disturbing new details today about what happened on a flight to san francisco when a pass...

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