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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...

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...