independents, 202-585-3882. if you re outside the u.s., it s 202-585-3883. you can also catch up with us on all your favorite pages on witter, facebook, or email us. a very good monday morning to you. we begin with the front page of the american press from lake charles, louisiana. supreme court in session, justices expected to take on the issue of gay marriage. that headline dominating several of the major papers today and over the weekend. here s the front page of the usa today, justices term starts slow, could explode is the headline there to yesterday s front page of the washington post. the defining moment possible for the court. the prospect of a major ruling on gay marriage looms large. and read you a bit from the reuters story previewing today s opening day of the new term. this term, which runs to the end of june, is expected to be defined by whatever action the justices take on whether states can ban gay marriage. they have not yet agreed to hear any of the seve
host: any thoughts? guest: i say this is easily resolved. i think the one thing to be careful of is the difference between sort of partisan decisions and ones that come from different judicial philosophies or ideologies, when you think partisan, you think i m going to vote as any republican or democrat would do. i believe that there are a lot of cases at the supreme court and we can point to numerous examples that do not follow that traditional breakdown between party lines. and i think a good sample would be coming this term about recess appointments. here is an issue that will affect whoever the sitting president has come at a sitting president is not currently a democrat. but of course in a future election and maybe the republicans that win an election, therefore the decision that they announce it in the court will be a rule about the perspective power to make these recess appointments regardless of the party of the presidency. what you will see in that decision is the
story, defense secretary chuck hagel calling back for lotus civilian workers this week as the name-calling and finger- pointing continues. we are asking you who is responsible. if you blame the democrats, give call if you say the republicans are at fault for those that blame the president we will get an update on what happened over the weekend. you can also share your comments on our facebook page, facebook.com/cspan. our e-ge rest is mail address is journal@c- span.org. secretary hagel asking civilian employees to return to their jobs following some action over the weekend by the house and senate. the pentagon announcing it will ordered all of its civilian employees back to work this week that s new development over the weekend. he iss live on the phone, following all of this for the hill, newspaper. the house continued to push for a clean cr. obviously this has not gotten anywhere among house republicans or senate republicans. after a couple of weeks of bluster
of that this morning. republicans, (202) 737-0002. .emocrats, (202) 737-0001 independence and all others, (202) 628-0205. send us your thoughts via toast social media, http://twitter.com/cspanwj, and e-mail us, journal@c-span.org. first i want to begin with david drucker joining us on the phone this morning. let s begin with what we heard on the sunday talk shows yesterday from house speaker john boehner. what did he have to say? well, friday afternoon, evening, he said he did not expect a clean debt ceiling bill to be brought, that there were not enough republican votes to get through. senate republicans are not going to provide the votes that will be necessary for a 60 vote bill to get the clean debt ceiling through the senate, that is what they are telling me. given all the speculation over the last week that this was something he would do, it is possible he felt that he needed that he will do something on the debt and the deficit. whatt s show our viewers he had to say
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