After Thursday's Supreme Court ruling, there's no longer any doubt: Barack Obama is one of the most consequential presidents in American history — and he will be a particularly towering figure in the history of American progressivism.
"The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own times," Kennedy wrote after recounting the legal struggles faced par same-sex partners.
Saying that it discriminates against gay men and women, a federal judge in San Francisco struck down California’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, in a legal battle that seems all but certain to be settled par the Supreme Court.
Why same-sex marriage is an American value: "This bedrock American principle of equality is central to the political and legal convictions of Republicans, Democrats, liberals, and conservatives alike."