action now? last year the united states supreme court in the windsor case finally held it is unconstitutional to not recognize same-sex marriages for purposes of federal benefits. department of justice and other parts of the administration have a green light to say, look, we can t wait on congress to do everything but we can do what s within our power to change things we have control over. attorney general holder is expected to issue that memo tomorrow. dramatic testimony in the loud music murder trial. michael dunn charged with first degree murder for opening fire into an suv full of teenagers and killing one of them. dunn had been arguing with them for playing loud music. yesterday his fiancee took the stand and here is more. court is in recess but the third day of the trial proved to be an emotional one.
so, of the cases the other case is utah case. yes. yes. gay marriage, which appears to say can we stop gay marriage until we get a final court opinion? yes this one came out of the blue for a lot of people, as we all know. same-sex marriage, a lot of action across the united states. the supreme court sort of side stepped the issue last summer in the california proposition 8 case but at the same time it also ruling in another case said that same-sex people haved same rights as homosexual couples in the windsor case. and what s happened is that lower court judges are take you can the language from the supreme court last june and using it to enhance same-sex couples rights and that s exactly what happened in utah, right before christmas a utah judge said that utah could not ban marriages between gay men and lesbians. and now, utah officials are right before the supreme court saying please block this.
most people who cover politics know that a book is almost mandatory for a presidential run. you got lay out where you are and set out some beliefs, et cetera, et cetera. why did you write it? in our case, it s pretty unique. people want to know about my biography, how i became an eagle scout, what sports i did as a kid, they will be disappointed because this is really a book about the reforms we did in wisconsin, what we did, how we did it, most importantly i why we did it and at the end, a reaction how it can apply to other states and our nation s capital. we went through some pretty big attentioner any 2011. the recall was the first ever where a governor was successful and i think people wanted to know what, where and why. and we have been successful getting that out. and i hope actually more than just conservatives and republicans a lot of undecided voters in my state and across the country read it, because i think they will be surprised to see what they weren t seeing throughout
of the country could he refer the matter to the full court. the next couple of days we will see whether religious groups is to sign these forms. now this is one part of the contraceptive mandate. they say they don t want to because it makes them complicit in it? yes. yes. there are other groups that you fall under it. in fact, the supreme court has a contraceptive mandate case that it s going to hear in march that s come from a for-profit business by the name of hobby lobby, also based in the tenth circuit in oklahoma. and what that group is saying is that our business owners have religious objections to providing contraceptive coverage. that case is actually about contraceptive coverage itself. the one that s right before the justices now this emergency motion has to do with the form. the nuns say we don t want to have to even be part of it as you say, candy, complicit. the obama administration has tried to minimize the filling out of the exemption form but they say we don t want
wait until the merits decide. don t let gay people get married in our state. 1,000 have gotten licenses. hard to undo, what california proved. and it sends mixed signals to people in the state can they get married or not get married. . that s right now before the justices also. just quickly, looking at what s on the court docket, what case must we pay attention because it will have the broadest impact? all of them. all of them. sorry. the same-sex marriage and the contraceptive mandate ones up there right now are not up there on the merit bus campaign finance on the merits. right on january 13th when the court comes back it will hear a case having to do with presidential power over recess appointments that s important for the structure of government. we have a case involving abortion protests, we have a case involving prayer before council meetings. so lots of good culture war cases. come back and talk us to. okay. thank you so much, joan because cubic, appreciate it. t