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Infamous test cases. they take them from a guy who has been there with 48 years stellar evaluations and give them to this individual, correct? >> so. >> >> okay. fine. here is-what i want from your testimony. they everywhere taken after you made recommendations on how to deal with the test cases. is that correct? >> that's correct. >> hall says in his vast experience, taking applications out for extra review was rare. there is also the issue of the blame game and you may remember the initial story line was this was all the fault of a couple of rogue agents in cincinnati. >> ms. hougheric how d...

Way. it gives the impression, it doesn't say this, but any sort of discrimination that puts gay people in one category and straight people in another is unconstitutional. that's the implication of his decision. the implication of his decision is that same-sex marriage has to come to the whole country. he didn't say that. that has not yet been -- that's the law of the land but certainly there will be test cases brought in short order which may yet establish it. >> going to be a lot of loose ends to tie up. >> i think that's what makes it so complicated because it's still a match work of differe...

Now? where do they go from here? >> there's enormous practical and symbolic victories in both of these cases. there are all these federal benefits whether it's filing joint returns, social security benefits. those benefits are available to gay people who are married. if you look at the language of justice kennedy's opinion. it really does suggest that there is a constitutional right to be married if you are a gay person. there's certain to be new test cases in the 38 states that do not have same-sex marriage using it as a basis to have seame-sex marriage. that's the next step after california ...

whether or not police questions people's immigration status based on reasonable suspicion. joining us to talk about immigration ruling and what it means is our senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin and white house correspondent jessica yellin. jeffrey, please start off by saying what the court accepted and rejected. >> well, the heart of the case is about state power versus federal power. immigration is an area that is traditionally one where the federal government exercises most of the power, but in this case, arizona, as we all now know passed sb-1070 which established certain new re...

Classes for native americans because there's a federal law requiring to have those classes and it also says they cannot ban courses that include the history of ethnic groups in general as long as they're open to everyone, as long as they also don't break any of those other rules. it's very complicated, very subjective. you can see a lot of potential questions about it. i've posteded the entire law for you on my facebook page. it's exactly what you guys are saying. we start to see cases where we don't know if it will be in violation of the law or not. very subjective. how do they decide that? w...