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The issues today were very clear, why are we treating only married straight couples different from all other couples. and there wasn't much of an answer. >> you have been such an important strategist in this case. when you look at all the work done over the last decade toward today, what do you think was the most important preparations toward the case today? >> the answer is on two levels, because i think when couples started legally marrying in massachusetts, it changed everything, when people could see with their own eyes what it looked like when same-sex couples committed in happy. and it w...

Decision that there is a marriage between two people for the federal government then to come in and say, no joint return, no marital deduction, no social security benefits. your spouse is very sick, but you can't get leave. people, if that set of attributes, one might well ask, what kind of marriage is this? >> and i think the arnswer to that would be that that's a marriage under state law. >> ow. and that's whereupon in the arguments we got to the point where justice ginsburg ended up calling those marriages skim milk marriages, which frankly is a grave offense to skim milk, which is deliciou...

Equally. >> a lot of people have made pricks. a lot of people in cable news n in. but if the court strikes down doma in a way this case was presented to them, what would happen next? >> the clearest practical consequences that same-sex couples who are legally married will now be treated like other married couples in their state, whether it means they pay more in taxes or less, but they are married and they come to the federal government as married people and plug into that social safety net and all those protections and all the responsibilities that come along with it. that's the clearest cons...

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