Thates a thats a kind of funny sentence. For Justice Breyer, you may hear hat all the time, but not if you are sitting on the massachusetts court. I think the reaction did take me by surprise. Do you think your experience growing up at in apartheid south africa strengthen you in anyway for the kinds of courageous could positions you took on the court . No. [laughter] i mean, when you become a judge, you bring to that position your entire life history, and when you are sitting on the court, you work very hard to put aside your personal views. And so and gay marriage really was not part of my thinking in south africa. In fact, gay marriage had not been part of my thinking in the United States. So i did not make a onetoone connection. My life had been involved with issues of race discrimination, deeply involved in issues of gender discrimination to some extent, involved in issues of this ability law, but i can recall and i do not say this proudly, but looking at the extent of how much thi
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reason. that our system normally operates on this idea of checks and balances. that no one branch of the government has exclusive authority. but that a sweeping version of this independence day legislature theory would in fact gives the legislature authority. and she said that is not how we have always done it. and of course, this is not the only case we re following. there s another big case recently about a colorado wept as minor who was an evangelical christian and wants to avoid working on same sex weddings. do you have a sense about which direction justices are leaning in that case specifically? yeah. so that does seem like after the oral argument, it is a course with the caveat that it is always dangerous to make predictions about oral arguments. from the point that the supreme court agreed to take up her case, it seems likely that there will be five or six votes among the conservative majority in favor of lori smith, the website. designer and it did seem like that was the ca