First ladies is an inspiring read, now available in hardcover and as an ebook. Here are a few of the book festivals we will be covering this spring on book tv. We will visit maryland for live coverage of the gaithersburg book festival with tom davis and mark frost. Along with david axelrod. We will close out may at books expo new york city, where the Publishing Industry showcases upcoming books. In june, we are live for printers row, including a threehour indepth program with lawrence wright. That is this spring on cspan2s book tv. The Supreme Court will hear arguments this week in a case involving samesex marriage. Coming up, we get a preview of the case with a group of attorneys. That is followed by conservative religious leaders talking about opposition to samesex marriage and how the Supreme Court decision could impact religious freedom. Later, a look at issues important to progressives in the 2016 president ial election. The American Constitution Society for law and policy recentl
Hard to think of any other kind of law where you can discriminate in that type of rational way. It doesnt lend itself to the economic regulation. The proponents of the amendment in the perry case, the natural argument and the things that got the attorney justice appeased, and they made a joke about it. They werent taking this argument particularly seriously. Theres been a lot of focus on the Supreme Court decisions but theres a real history that the court has had in addressing access to marriage that includes permitting people who dont pay Child Support to be able to marry, permitting individuals who are prison to be able to marry while they are in prison. There is this really huge issue that the Supreme Court has viewed marriage over 40 times over a couple hundred years. The court has consistently found that we have to give huge to individuals who are willing to marry. Theyre not interested in picking out who should and should not have access to the institution. The other piece of thi
And if you want to see how that stacks up against the democratic debates, even with the republican numbers dropping, the republicans are still sitting pretty in terms of the size of the audiences theyre reaching. The democrats of course this year have decided to hide their light under a bushel. So the republicans have done six debates so far. The republicans have only done three. The last two democratic debates with viewership down there in the 8 million range, those were both held on weekend evenings. Not a great time to get big audiences. That scheduling plan is also true of the next democratic debate, which will be this weekend on nbc. 9 00 on sunday. On the sunday of a threeday weekend. Its kind of amazing. The Democratic Party has done everything it can to ensure the smallest possible audiences for their candidates debates this year. But in terms of this next one, the race right now is so tight and its so increasingly snippy between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, i dont think
Joining us this hour. Javy friday. The numbers are in on the Republican Debate last night. Turns out it was the least viewed Republican Debate yet. Which kind of surprises me. I mean, in the big picture theres still nothing to complain about. The numbers are still giant. But fewer people watched last nights Republican Debate than any of the others this past year. The first one youll remember was giant 24 million viewers. The second one 23 million viewers. The third one was 14 million. The fourth was 13 million. The fifth one went up a little bit. That was the las vegas one on cnn. That went up to 18 million viewers. Kind of looked like maybe viewership had gone down but it was coming back up. But last night it was back down to the lowest yet. It was 11 Million People watching the main stage sevenkidnap Republican Debate last night in South Carolina. And if you want to see how that stacks up against the democratic debates, even with the republican numbers dropping, the republicans are s
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