on her state tax bill. if that was true, if she was convicted of charges for writing a bad check, i can t tell whether this is just a charge that was dropped or a charge she was convicted for, that would be something that would be admissible against you in a court of law. very problematic and telling. a crime of moral turpitude. the jury would hear all about it and say you can discount her testimony because this is someone you shouldn t believe because they have a loose relationship with the truth. they have criminal issues. they should not be trusted. that s why you are being told if you don t have health insurance, you ll have to pay a big fine. you re not getting your refund this year. we ll take your obama care fee, your tax out of your refund. you have to deal with these navigateo naviga navigators. where are protections provided to americans under penalty of a fine if they don t
to the supreme court. today is like a spectacular event for me. a lifetime kind of event. reporter: windsor and her wife, thea spire were married three years, partners for 40. when spire passed away she was hit with a $360,000 federal estate tax bill. money she would not have had to pay if she had been married to a man. in the midst of my grief, i realized the federal government was treating us as strangers. reporter: the defense of marriage act, or doma, defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman. so gays and lesbians who are legally wed in their states, can t get the same benefits afforded to heterosexuals. a majority of the nine justices seemed highly skeptical of the law. justice anthony kennedy and the four liberals on the court raised questions. so you would be really diminishing what the state has said is marriage. you are saying, no, state, there are two kind of marriages. the full marriage, and then this
to the supreme court. today is like a spectacular event for me. a lifetime kind of event. reporter: windsor and her wife, thea spire were married three years, partners for 40. when spire passed away she was hit with a $360,000 federal estate tax bill. money she would not have had to pay if she had been married to a man. in the midst of my grief, i realized the federal government was treating us as strangers. reporter: the defense of marriage act, or doma, defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman. so gays and lesbians who are legally wed in their states, can t get the same benefits afforded to heterosexuals. a majority of the nine justices seemed highly skeptical of the law. justice anthony kennedy and the four liberals on the court raised questions. so you would be really diminishing what the state has said is marriage. you are saying, no, state, there are two kind of marriages. the full marriage, and then this
plaintiffs and families seated before the justices, we couldn t have had a better team in there articulating why proposition 8 is unconstitutional, why it should be erased from our books forever. and i know that those who are working so hard to make the case for doma, and make the case it is unconstitutional, edie windsor, the plaintiff in that case was treated when her wife passed away and she received a $360,000 estate tax bill because they were a same sex couple, that s outrageous. that s outrageous. we look forward to seeing those arguments tomorrow. i will be in the courtroom tomorrow, look forward to that case made as well. lance, will you be in the courtroom tomorrow? i won t be there tomorrow. i will be paying attention. the wonderful thing is the entire country is paying attention. we have come to a time where the entire country, they re saying
argue their case tomorrow? you know, look, i am not a pundit or legal scholar, i will leave that to julian to articulate what the justices, what one could read or perhaps not read, but i know from our perspective, having ted olson and david boyce, republican and democrat, representing the four plaintiffs and families seated before the justices, we couldn t have had a better team in there articulating why proposition 8 is unconstitutional, why it should be erased from our books forever. and i know that those who are working so hard to make the case for doma, and make the case it is unconstitutional, edie windsor, the plaintiff in that case was treated when her wife passed away and she received a $360,000 estate tax bill because they were a same sex couple,