through to his left is andy pincus who argued the case this past term, partner at mayor brown where he focuses on appellate litigation and advocacy. during the reagan administration answer that assistant solicitor. and. and he is a cofounder and codirector of the year loss cool supreme court alicyclic let's get right into it and talk about one of the most controversial cases the same-sex marriage case. windsor, the united states versus windsor and found there was a constitutional right to same-sex marriage which is the way it went down in the supreme court. my thoughts and no particular order the opinion no one is great surprise, written the majority of opinions in the libya cases expanding the rights of gays on wilmer versus evans. lawrence versus texas and windsor. and you know, like many kennedy opinions on big topics it was long on rhetoric and short on traditional legal analysis. i do not know whether that is by design because there was a term. kennedy would say this is a teaching case and they did not know if those direct the public law students command i would not be surprised.