this apply to people who are not part of the union? it impacts state and local government in 22 states, the biggest states on the coast, new jersey, illinois. that is a big change of government and labor relations. it will not have any impact on private sector employment. what do you expect the decision will be? neil gorsuch remained silent, that may be significant. the swing justice in this case, he is it. the court deadlocked 4-4, an identical case three years ago, the california teachers association, we know where the other eight justices are, deadlocked, tied. we would have a 5-4 decision striking down agency fees as
i said that if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well. it is gratifying to see that principle enshrined into law by this decision. president obama commenting yesterday on the supreme court s historic decision to grant same-sex marriage rights across the country. the decision striking down bans on gay marriage that still existed as of yesterday in 14 states. all of them in the south and midwest. one of them not the state of wisconsin. that s where eight couples successfully sued last year to overturn that state s ban on gay marriage. we talked in the last block about the republican reaction. now the opinion of a wisconsin democratic senator. she became the first openly gay person ever elected to the
justice, opinion written by justice anthony kennedy who has written all of the court s other important gay rights rulings, justice kennedy says that marriage, the right to marry the person of your choice is a fundamental right and that deny that right to same-sex couples would deprive them of the constitution s guaranty of liberty. concludes the opinion say nothing union is more profound than marriage, embodies the highest ideals of love and devotion to family. they ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. the constitution grants them that right. there s a word that justice kennedy has used so often and especially just two years ago in a decision striking down the defensive marriage act, dignity. once again today is his opinion uses that word dignity. the depriving same-sex couples of the right to marry would make them second class citizens and would harm their children. each of the four conservatives wrote their own dissent.
the defense of marriage act gay marriage advocates won two states. a federal judge threw out indiana s ban on gay marriage and recognition of out-of-state marriages. a federal appeals court upheld a decision striking down a ban in utah. both states, however, say they will appeal. think the san francisco pitcher tim lincecum pitcher is all washed up? don t tell the san diego padres. the 30-year-old pitched a no-hitter against san diego yesterday. as the giants beat the padres 4-0. his second no hitter in as many seasons. last year was also against pat padres. this one was easier. he needed 113 pitches. only allowed one base run. impressive. mm. good news for former top pitcher curt schilling. he tweets his cancer is in remission. announced earlier he was undergoing treatment. never said what kind of cancer it is. schilling is an analyst for espn. the last day of school is always cause for celebration, but students at an upstate new york school had a little something
republican senator to do so. joining me now to discuss what is next in the fight for equality is the lawyer who successfully argued to overturn part of doma. we re delighted to be joined by roberta caplin. it s a pleasure. on that historic day a year ago when you got the decision striking down section 3 of the defense of marriage act, could you imagine how much progress we would have made just a year later? in a word, no. i certainly thought that we would make this kind of progress and i gave a speech, i think it was in august, where i explained the windsor decision was in a lot of ways the functional legal equivalent of the battle of normandy. but i never thought that we would conquer, to use that analogy, that we would conquer the rest of europe so quickly. it s truly been extraordinary. one of the things that was so interesting about that decision is scalia writing in the dissent, very conservative