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Managing this moment because he himself is a black man. which got me to thinking about the buzz worthy question our next guest posed back in august. will it take the next white president to talk to white americans about race? joining me now from washington, d.c. is slate.com staff writer jamelle bowie. talk to me about whether or not we need a white president to have the race talk. >> well, my first thought when i asked that question was thinking back to the commencement at howard university in 1963. and i don't think he was president yet but that speech if you have never read it, i know you h...

President. well today's ruling says that it also only applies to this one case. it says that only the issue of contraception is subject to exceptions on religious grounds. the ruling says explicitly if a company objects on religious grounds to other health insurance regulation like covering blood transfusions or vaccines or something, the ruling says explicitly there would be no religious exemption available for that. there's only religious exemptions from birth control rules. how does that make sense? joining us, the person to whom we turn when things don't make sense to me, dahlia lithwick a...

Ruling says explicitly there would be no religious exemption available for that. there's only religious exemptions from birth control rules. how does that make sense? joining us, the person to whom we turn when things don't make sense to me, dhalia lithwick at slate.com. >> it's my pleasure. >> the court's majority opinion insists this is a narrow ruling, you can only get a religious exemption specifically from laws about contraception. do i understand that right? does that make sense? >> it's certainly asserted in the majority opinion that is penned by samuel alito. he says all this other bad...

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...