i think there is a way the court can do that. if you look at the windsor case that was spoken of, it was not just how gays were treated that was part of the decision. but it was also a deference to states definition of marriage. that s been historically a recognition by the supreme court. what has changed, the constitution hasn t changed, but a lot of things have happened in the state courts. a majority of the states that have moved toward recognizing gay marriage has done it through judicial fiat versus the legislative process. so the courts really are forcing this issue as to what the supreme court will do. i think it is a little bit unpredictable. i think they could continue to give some deference to the states. but i do think that we ll probably have to clearly recognize what happens in another state. and so we ll wait and see. but as governor
court? that was real audio from a u.s. supreme court hearing last year. the north carolina board for regulating dentists sued the federal government. the case had do with teeth whitening and whether the dentist members of that state board could block people without dental licenses to offer to whiten other people s teeth on the cheap. and the dentists lost that case last year with the court ruling against them. maybe that was for the betterment of the human race. i have no idea. i didn t follow it that closely. what i do know is that the telling of the case with the high court and the lawyers and the stenographers all represented by dogs and a chicken and a duck well, all of that is world changing. we are right now reaching the peak of our first full supreme court season since john oliver gave the world b world of the court in canine form. had the dogs become their mini genre on youtube, which may change the way you get to see two super important cases that are on their way to the cou
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take a portion of the farmer s crop in order to regulate supply and price. let s not bore ourselves with the details of that one. suffice to it say the case has spawned a era of terrible pun head lines. next week though the court is finally getting to a pair of big, grand historically important case. these are big cases. both of them. but if there is a sleeper issue it is the one about the way we execute prisoners. death row inmates are challenging the three-drug protocol for lethal injections. this as states across are having trouble securing the drugs used for lethal injections. this as more and more are refusing to sell their products if those products are used for the purpose of execution. just last week oklahoma approved a new execution method, nicetrogen gas, it s completely untested.
but war never goes as planned, not even war conducted by repeat control. gene, thanks for being with us. let s talk about this. there is a balancing act i still can t quite figure out when i think about this. one way of looking at this is saying that over the last two years because of the drone program we ve had we ve taken out an awful lot of bad guys out there. we have put a real dent in al qaeda because of this and have done that while paying a much lower cost in terms of casualties on our side than we normally or used to have been the case. that s absolutely the case. that s why this is hard it is a hard issue. it is not really a democratic versus republican issue, it really hasn t been and really shouldn t be. i i think that we can t escape the what i see as moral questions, as legal questions. this is war by assassination. and i think we ought to figure out what we think about that. we have a law against assassinating foreign leaders. this isn t quite the same thing but i m