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More. what else do we need to know there, shannon? >> you point out an interesting split in the justices who lined up together. just to remind folks the decision on prop 8 doesn't get to the merits of what the supreme court thinks about the issue of same sex marriage, it simply gets to the procedural issues about who had the the right to bring this case. you have the chief justice john roberts lining up with justices, scalia, ginsberg, brian and saying gone. dissenting justice kennedy joined by alito and soto mier. the people who brought this case all to the supreme koerpt they say didn't have...

Agents checking over medical expenditures. let me tell you not only for the individual taxpayer but for the healthcare providers. the hospitals, doctors, et cetera, you are going to have big brother scrutinizing -- heather: we'll see what happens fan more comes out. thank you for joining us. good to be with you. bill: a big story out of atlanta. heather, thank you. president obama saying he's close to a decision on the keystone oil pipeline. but one of his biggest concerns is stemming from one of his billion dollar donors. air hernandez taken away in handcuffs. he's headed for court in attlebo...

Right parties to do that and the government officials are refusing to do so, what the lowest court had done was strike down prop 8, meaning that it's no good, it can't amend the state constitution to say that marriage is only one man and one woman. as we continue to read through this the first impression is prop 8 is probably gone in california. these parties did not have standing to appeal the decision. we'll keep reading that is the first blurb it probably means bad news for proposition 8. bill: it was a ballot measure in 2008. the question was if they could make it unconstitutional in the s...

>> reporter: i say that times infinity. when the justices come together you just need five votes on one coalesced point. but there can be splitoff opinions, multiple dissents. they can go very narrow and taylor it just to california in the case of prop 8. in doma they can write it narrowly and say we are going to uphold it or strike it down. our most unexpected opinion would be if they say a blanket pronouncement allowing gay marriage in all 50 states. we don't think they will go that way, we think it will be a much more narrow decision. but we'll see. heather: whatever the supreme court decid...

The right to be there no matter how meritorious your claim is the court will not hear the case. that is the technical-legal argument. the practical effect of what was done today in this california case is to leave the trial court's decision as the law in california, and as shannon just so ably described that decision says the supreme court of california had the right to declare same-sex marriage as a valid, fundamental liberty from the constitution of the state, therefore, same-sex marriage is lawful in the state of california, notwithstanding a majority of the voters attempting to make it unl...