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It's how edward jones makes sense of investing. in austin the lbj is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1964 civil rights act. what is left unfinished in the pursuit of equal justice for all, arguably the fight for marriage equality, which brought together two past legal adver adversa adversaries. ted olson made the case at the beginning of the 2013 oral argument. >> i thought it would be important for this court to have proposition 8 put in context what it does. it walls off gay and lesbians from marriage, the most important relation in life according to this court, thus stigma tiesi...

Like the religious right than anyone else, then count me out. and tammy bruce said, i'm a gay woman appalled you caved to the gay gestapo. they argue in a piece that may or may not be tongue in cheek that all 35,000 people who contributed to california's proposition 8 should be, quote, purged. he adds, let's go get them. brett. >> more on this with the panel. thank you. what do you think about this story? let me know at facebook.com/bretbaiersr, or on twitter. >> a federal judge says he will order ohio to recognize out of state gay marriages. but the upcoming ruling by judge timothy black wi...

>> well, i think the question that ultimately is going to need to be decided by the courts and ultimately the supreme court is whether the different states' bans on gay marriage violate the 14th amendment to the united states constitution. if you look at the cases that the supreme court ruled on last year, striking down section 3 of the defense of marriage act, justice kennedy wrote that state laws that treat same-sex cup ous as second class citizens violated the due process and equal protection of the constitution. it also sent back, although it did not rule on the ultimate issue, it sent bac...

Let's start with number five. >> ted olson and david boyce, the two lawyers who brought the case in california challenging proposition 8 and were ultimately successful in getting the supreme court to end the enforcement of proposition 8 but not for all the reasons they wanted. they wanted a broad constitutional ruling and they didn't get it. they're back in next year to try to get it. >> you have russian lgbt activists and they've put themselves out there. a little bit of a risk. right? >> it will be very important next month to see at the sochi games what happens in russia, of course. there i...

President's going to do it but i do think people, as i said sunday in the "l.a. times" i think there is a better case for pardon than people suggest. if you look at the thousands of pardons that have come down, this is a program that was declared unconstitutional by a federal judge, as we just discussed. it's viewed as abusive by many civil libertarians but also, the president has admitted, the congress has admitted that there were abuses. there are two task forces issuing reforms, there are new laws being proposed. all of those are a result of these disclosures. so when you pardon someone, it...