Precedentsetting decision, a professor from Hastings College of the law and kate kendell. Big day today. Kate what was your reaction when you first heard this decision come down . I burst into tears and im not the least bit ashamed of it. It felt like not only the culmination of so much work and effort and sacrifice by so many, by really countless people, that it also felt like it was the harbinger of a new chapter where maybe more freedom, more justice, it felt like you know those words, equal justice under law inscribed on the Supreme Court building that meant something for all of us. Its more real. Were going to talk about the ruling itself. What are the legal underpinnings of it . Well this is both on due process grounds and equal protection grounds, which is a very important point. This is solid deely based on two doctrines. You have a due process right to marry and you cant discriminate on a factor that has no rationality as well as you cant discriminate between people. And Justi
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