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The Supreme Court of the United States heard a case today about marriage equality, on which it will issue a decision in June. The New York Times has been following the discussions and news live, has shared\u00a0audio recordings\u00a0of excerpts, and reports that the justices are divided on the issue, also\u00a0providing background to the case. Amy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":29969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[2243,3110,3797,5987,6383,6393,6494,7036,9305,10727,12084,13163],"class_list":["post-29968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-courts","tag-equality","tag-gays","tag-judges","tag-law","tag-lawyers","tag-lesbians","tag-marriage","tag-politics","tag-same-sex-marriage","tag-supreme-court","tag-united-states"],"yoast_head":"\n
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