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Shopping for strawberries now. find fresh berries and all your quality produce backed by our money back guarantee. walmart. the supreme court now pronounces man and man, wife and wife, or man and wife. whoever you are, you can get married. it's wednesday, june 26th, and your happily ever after begins now. i'm joy reid in for alex wagner today. in a huge victory for supporters of gay rights, the supreme court today struck down the federal defense of marriage act and issued a ruling in california's proposition 8 case that will pave the way for the resumption of same-sex marriages in the gold...

So what happens then to the law, judge in california? >> that means that the trial court decision is the law of california, and the trial court decision said proposition 8, the referendum cannot interfere with what the supreme court of california found is a right for same-sex couples to marry in california. stated differently, same-sex marriage is lawful in the largest state in the union, california, from and after today as a result of this opinion, and all those who got married in the interim, first it was unlawful, then it was lawful, then it was unlahose that got married in the interim thei...

Court in two important decisions brings us that much closer to true equality. in the decision striking as unconstitutional, the so-called doma or defense of marriage case, the united states supreme court held that there was no purpose for depriving gay and lesbian couples of the right to marry the person they love. there was no legitimate justification for that. as justice scalia noted, that holding, that principle, guarantees the right of every individual in every state to marriage equality. in the california case, the supreme court held that the proponents of proposition 8 did not have stand...

>> shepard: could be weeks before gay couples in california can get married again. that's the word from a federal appeals court in dispran. today as we reported earlier the supreme court refused to reinstate california's ban on same sex marriage. officials say supporters of proposition 8 can ask the high court to rehear that case. and for now the ban is still in effect. claudia cowan is live for us live this afternoon in san francisco. hi, claudia. >> good evening, shepard. many same sex couples here in california already making wedding plans. the legal wrong divling is not over yet. supporter...

Breadth of this in many ways. but when you look, as we were talking about -- i'm sorry, let's go back to pete. not yet. as we look -- edie windsor's case and we look at the difference between $363,000 in taxes versus zero, give us those real-life examples of what -- we're going to wait. because we have another report. he's going to read the descent. pete williams now. >> reporter: refers to the prop 8 case. and it suggests -- let me make it very clear. we don't have the proposition 8 ruling yet. but based on what the descenters are saying in the doma case, it appears what everyone predicted is...