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James Lawrence Ormiston, 84, died in his Venice Center home on December 21 after a month in the care of Hospice of the Finger Lakes. He was born on May

0 overturn doma. >> i think they will probably overturn doma. it's crucial as justice kennedy said, if congress doesn't have the authority to define marriage because that's traditionally a state role, then we don't need to reach the equal protection, or decide in the appeals case that the law constitutionally discriminates against gays and that would eliminate the doma question. >> paul: do you agree? >> i don't. doma was written in a specific context and time, you had in the 90's was why is the supreme court legalizing gay marriage and suddenly the federal government has to confront a world w...

One is expecting? america's coming demographic disaster. jonathan, welcome, good to see you again. >> good to see you. >> so we've been told for years, decades that the world had too many people. now you're saying the united states may have too few. explain that. >> yeah, well, hundreds of years, actually. it goes back to thomas malcolm and the danger of overpopulation around the corner and turns out the population has lots of good things, people live longer and with higher standards of living. declines in commodity prices, but what we've seen since 1968 is a marked decline in fertility rates ...

0 prop 8 case, kick it back saying that the people appealing it don't have standing because the state is not defending its law. the effect of that would be that the ruling would stand and california would have same-sex marriage, but have no legal precedence and no effect on other states. >> paul: let's go to the federal statute and justice kennedy, who raised a question about that law on federalism grounds, that is the tension between state and federal power. let's listen. >> you are at real risk of running in conflict with what has always been thought to be the essence of the power which is t...