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Illustration on the Supreme Court's potential for doing societal damage to marriage by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Illustration on the burdens of Obamacare and the pending Supreme Court decision by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Supporters of marriage equality gathered outside the Supreme Court to demonstrate support for LGBT couples on Tuesday as justices inside asked questions that cautiously encouraged both sides of the debate on same-sex marriage. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy was closely watched. (Associated Press)
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Demonstrators cheer as plaintiffs leave the Supreme Court, where historic arguments were heard within the chambers on cases that could make same-sex marriage the law of the land throughout the U.S. (Associated Press)
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Demonstrators carry banners in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, April 28, 2015. The Supreme Court is set to hear historic arguments in cases that could make same-sex marriage the law of the land. The justices are meeting Tuesday to offer the first public indication of where they stand in the dispute over whether states can continue defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman, or whether the Constitution gives gay and lesbian couples the right to marry. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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Plaintiffs from Tennessee, Michigan, and Ohio walk down steps at the Supreme Court after posing for photographs with the lawyers representing in Washington, Monday, April 27, 2015, as the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on the constitutionality of state bans on same-sex marriage on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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Janet Porter of Faith2Action displays a Restraining Order she pulled from one of sixty boxes of the order while speaking at a Restrain the Judges news conference in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, April 27, 2015. The opponents of same-sex marriage are urging the court to resist embracing what they see as a radical change in society's view of what constitutes marriage. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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"If you read what the Supreme Court said" in a 2013 gay marriage case, Windsor v. United States, "there's really no other way for the Supreme Court to come out in the case that's up for argument on Tuesday," lawyer Ted Olson said on NBC's "Meet the Press." (Associated Press)
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The Capitol building is seen through the columns on the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington on May 5, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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President Barack Obama greets Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas prior to his address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Kansas Secretary of State Kris W. Kobach, the lawyer for Mississippi and the agents, said the plaintiffs will either ask the appeals court to reconsider or else take their fight to the Supreme Court. (Associated Press)
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The Supreme Court is seen in Washington in this Oct. 3, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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Demonstrators stand outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, March 4, 2015, as the court hears arguments in King v. Burwell, a major test of President Barack Obama's health overhaul which, if successful, could halt health care premium subsidies in all the states where the federal government runs the insurance marketplaces. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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In this courtroom sketch Michael Carvin, lead attorney for the petitioners, right, addresses the Supreme Court during oral arguments in King v. Burwell, a major legal test of Obamacare. (AP Photo/Dana Verkouteren)
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Samantha Elauf, right, with her mother Majda Elauf stand outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015. The Supreme Court is indicating it will side with a Muslim woman who didn't get hired by clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch because she wore a black headscarf that conflicted with the company's dress code to her job interview. Liberal and conservative justices aggressively questioned the company's lawyer during arguments at the high court Wednesday in a case that deals with when an employer must take steps to accommodate the religious beliefs of a job applicant or worker. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Samantha Elauf stands outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015. The Supreme Court is indicating it will side with a Muslim woman who didn't get hired by clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch because she wore a black headscarf that conflicted with the company's dress code to her job interview. Liberal and conservative justices aggressively questioned the company's lawyer during arguments at the high court Wednesday in a case that deals with when an employer must take steps to accommodate the religious beliefs of a job applicant or worker. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Protestors filled the Capitol rotunda in Helena, Mont., during a February rally to show support in an attempt to change the Montana Constitution to define life as beginning at conception. The so-called personhood initiative is intended to prompt a legal challenge to Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that established a legal right to abortion. (AP Photo)
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Lee Carter, right, and her husband Hollis Johnson embrace outside the Supreme Court of Canada, Feb. 6 in Ottawa. The high court unanimously strucktdown a ban on doctor-assisted suicide for mentally competent patients with terminal illnesses. Ms. Carter and her husband had accompanied her 89-year-old mother Kathleen (Kay) Carter, who suffered from spinal stenosis, to Switzerland in 2010 where assisted suicide is legal, to end her life. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Sean Kilpatrick)
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Sen. Orrin Hatch, Utah Republican, is hoping the Supreme Court will rule against the Obama administration in the case over exchanges and subsidies, but the administration is using Mr. Hatch's own words to defend the law, citing an op-ed he wrote about the Affordable Care Act five years ago. (Associated Press)
