made a mistake in its ruling. because even though lawsuits can still be filed now after discrimination, if you don t have the structure of section 4 and section 5 in place ahead of time, the election may be over by the time lawsuits are filed or a court rules. and oftentimes it may be too late. when it came to the court s ruling on the defense of marriage act, the president praised the decision, but somewhat remarkably lamented the fact that it didn t even go further. the supreme court ruling yesterday was not simply a victory for the lgbt community, i think it was a victory for american democracy. because the supreme court did not make a blanket ruling that applies nationally, it s my personal belief, but i m speaking now as a president, as opposed to as a lawyer, that if you ve been married in massachusetts and you move
made a mistake in its ruling. because even though lawsuits can still be filed now after discrimination, if you don t have the structure of section 4 and section 5 in place ahead of time, the election may be over by the time lawsuits are filed or a court rules. and oftentimes it may be too late. when it came to the court s ruling on the defense of marriage act, the president praised the decision, but somewhat remarkably lamented the fact that it didn t even go further. the supreme court ruling yesterday was not simply a victory for the lgbt community, i think it was a victory for american democracy. because the supreme court did not make a blanket ruling that applies nationally, it s my personal belief, but i m
first of all, i think the supreme court ruling yesterday was not simply a victory for the lgbt community. i think it was a victory for american democracy. i believe at the root of who we are as a people as americans is the basic precept that we are all equal under the law. welcome back to hardball. that was president obama this morning reacting to yesterday s historic decision from the supreme court overturning a major part of the defense of marriage act. speaker of the house john boehner certainly had a more muted response. well, as you re probably aware, i was disappointed in the ruling yesterday. i believe in traditional marriage, but there are people on both sides of this issue with very heartfelt feelings about it, and i respect those views. the court made its decision.
first of all, i think the supreme court ruling yesterday was not simply a victory for the lbgt community, i think it was a victory for american democracy. i believe at the root of who we are as people, as americans, is the basic preseptember that we are all equal under the law. welcome back to hardball. that was president obama this morning reacting to yesterday s historic decision from the supreme court overturning a major part of the defense of marriage act. speaker of the house john boehner certainly had a more muted response. well, as you re probably aware, i was disappointed in the ruling yesterday. i believe in traditional marriage, but there are people on both sides of this issues, with very heartfelt feelings
with the supreme court ruling and in particular with republicans trying to attack on policy grounds this idea it s a horrible tax? so here s what i think is happening because i don t think that the entire party is this confused about what a debate between president obama and governor romney will be on a health care issue. the reason we re scheduling this vote, it is dog days of summer, nothing else is going on. fourth of july will be over. freedom, fireworks. then they ll say, okay, we ve done our repeal vote. there s nothing we can do now that we ve done our repeal vote, we ll have to wait for governor romney to become the president of the united states. i thirvnk they are going to bac pedal off. all of these republican governors will stand in the school house door and basically claim null fiction, we re not going to try to set up our exchanges as the law demands that we do. they are just going to let it