Chief Justice John Roberts’ gay cousin, Jean Podrasky, talks to TPM about today’s decision: “I am so excited. I am absolutely overwhelmed. I can now get married. I feel like my partner and I have been in limbo for several years. We’ve been engaged for a couple years, but now we can start planning.”

TPM’s Sahil Kapur just sat down for a Live Chat at TPMPrime on this week’s Supreme Court decisions. Join us now.

It was a landmark day for gay rights at the Supreme Court.

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Back in 2009 when Snowden was apparently hoping Obama would clean up shop, Snowden said leakers should be “shot in the balls” and crapped on Wikileaks, the organization now helping keep him out of US hands.

The overall gist of the new records shows the extent of Snowden’s libertarianism, which is not surprising and support for Ron Paul. But suggests a pretty big change on his attitudes toward his work and the role of government secrecy.

Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) a helicopter combat vet who lost both her legs in Iraq goes off (pretty understandably) on a guy who got access to lucrative DOD contracts by claiming military disability status over a sprained ankle he got in High School. Watch.

I think Nancy Pelosi has the best DOMA SCOTUS response of the day, bar none. Watch.

In front of the Court House.

At 5 PM eastern this afternoon, our reporter on the Supreme Court beat is going to be answering your question in a Live Chat at TPMPrime. Get your questions in now.

Unshackled from the tyranny of voting rights law, states around the South are speeding ahead to push through vote suppression “Voter ID” laws. Here’s a quick rundown of which states are already off and running.

Final Polltracker Average of Mass Senate race: Markey +9.6. Actual result: Markey +10.