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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140215:01:06:00

That decision came down. the wind zsor decision is clear this is not a decision about federalism. the court said so. it said it didn t need to reach the question of whether the unusual intrusion into the per view of the states with respect to domestic relations law was, itself, a reason to question the law s constitutionality. instead, it was going to decide it on equal protection and on liberty grounds. so we have so all of these cases so far that we ve seen at the state level have been district court judges. so the question is, as they work their way through the appeals courts, are you expecting this same unanimity to hold or going to start to see circuit splits? we are expecting the same unanimity to hold. we re very optimistic and we ve also seen other useful developments in recent weeks. like the ninth circuit court of appeals, for example, which recently held that any time government singles people out based on their sexual ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100628:17:47:00

Direction. i think it is fair from that proposition to ask a nominee whether they would take cases. i have spoken at length on the floor about what i consider the inappropriate decline of a number of cases considered. 100 years ago, a little more, in 1886, the supreme court decided 146 cases 146 opinions. little more than 20 years ago, 1987, 146 opinions. laft year, last term, 78 arguments, 75 opinions. a lot of circuit splits, important cases, are not taken up by the supreme court. the supreme court declined to hear the conflict which arguably is the most serious clash between congress s article 1 powers under the foreign ....

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