it meld the civil rights commission showed hostility toward the baker based on his religious beliefs. but the ruling leaves broader questions of civil rights and religious liberty unsettled. justice kennedy who is the author of four landmark cases wrote in today majority ruling. it says the outcome of cases like this and other circumstances must await further elaboration in the courts. all in the context of recognizing that these disputes must be resolved with tolerance, without unduect to sincere religious beliefs and without subjecting gay persons to indignities in an open market. joining me at the center of this. thank you so much for joining me. so charlie, you first. what was your reaction when the case came down, when you heard about this? you must have been disappointed, i m sure. yeah, thanks for asking. this morning, we were not
it doesn t appear they are ever going to until we get rid of the culture of the 60 vote requirement and go with 51. president trump has been great on that. and by the way the constitution only requires a majority. that was a super imposition by the senate. shannon: mitch mcconnell does not want to get rid of it. there are plenty of people speaking out. if you look before the november 2016 election, you will see there were democrats like schumer that were handing maybe it s time to get back to a majority ruling, and maybe we can get it done. that kind of stuff. it sure sounded to me like they were preparing to take the majority, get rid of cloture and stuff it to mcconnell and the republicans. the constitution requires 51 votes, just a majority. it doesn t require 60. that s the senate s own role. they invoke the goofy rule.
enduring an eight-month slog to rid themselves of isis, iraqi troops have reached the river that marks the end of the territory, to raise the flag as we ve been seeing on social media. and although there are some small pockets of isis, that since last night were holding out, the moment that iraq has to reflect on the sieveses it s made for the sacrifices it s made for the world. al abadi making sure people feel the appreciation has government has for the work and blood that s been lost in that goal. much more complicated task potentially socially ahead of iraq. they have quickly to begin the rift between the sunni ethnic and shia ethnic group. the sunnis once were the majority ruling under saddam hussein. now they find themselves marginalized. they re extremists fielding
it would have been a narrow ruling and left a big opening to come in the next president and say, okay, irs set new rules. he did not do that. he made a statutory ruling that said this law does not say what the challengers say. so i think it is quite right. i think was a thumping for a reason alone. you can tell in the tone and specifically in that not just that specific part of the legal reasoning but the language in terms of the way they are talking about this as something that shouldn t be trifled with because it is the america health care system. i thought it was remarkable. the other side of the ruling, justice scalia had one of his trademark awesome dissents today. at one point he called the majority ruling pure applesauce . that was the whole sentence, pure applesauce. is this quotability on these things strategic or does he actually think like a cartoon character? i think when you are bringing it. a couple of things.
the other side of the ruling, justice scalia had one of his trademark awesome dissents today. at one point he called the majority ruling pure applesauce . that was the whole sentence, pure applesauce. is this quotability on these things strategic or does he actually think like a cartoon character? i think when you are bringing it. a couple of things. he s the most quotable justice. sometimes it borders on a.m. radio quotable but he s a wordsmith and thinks this way and loves this. i think he is angry. at the heart of it what the court does is fully renounces this interpretive mode of thinking that the only thing that matters when you look at a statute is what those four words established by the state what that means in the dictionary. if it guts the statute so be it. he didn t get, not four votes, not five votes but three he votes for that proposition and i