law. now his wife, hillary clinton, is expressing her support for same-sex marriage. lbgt americans are our colleagues, our teachers, our soldiers, our friends, our loved ones. and they are full and equal citizens and deserve the rights of citizenship. that includes marriage. the clintons are joining prominent politicians on both sides of the aisle, including ohio senator rob portman, a republican who is publicly backing same-sex marriage. but will that political pressure have any impact on the nation s highest court? joining me now is cnn senior legal analyst, jeffrey toobin, and the executive director and founder of go proud, jimmy dealva. thank you both for being with us this morning. good morning. jimmy, there s a new poll in the washington post that shows a surprising 58% of americans
that s why i think you can expect a very closely divided court on these issues next week. okay, so i ll ask you to make a guess. which conservative justice might be swayed? i think there s really only one possibility. and that s anthony kennedy. anthony kennedy is mostly a conservative, appointed by ronald reagan in 1987, but he s the author of the court s two most important gay rights decision. lawrence v. texas, which said that states could no longer ban consensual sodomy among consenting adults and the romer case from colorado. so he is certainly the most likely of the five republicans on the court to join the four democrats, at least on the defense of marriage act case, if not also on the proposition 8 case. there are two same-sex marriage cases to be argued next week. so, jimmy, if things don t go your way, if the justices like, you know, i ll just shorthand it, rule against same-sex marriage, rule out its