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Justices weigh discrimination, dignity in wedding cake case

Clip: 12/5/2017 | 10m 30sVideo has Closed Captions

What a cake order has to do with civil rights laws.

One of the Supreme Court's biggest cases this term probes whether the religious beliefs of a Colorado baker override the rights of a couple who were refused a wedding cake because they are gay. Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal joins John Yang to go over the court arguments and how the justices responded.

12/05/2017

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