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Obama Predicts Supreme Court Will Bring Nationwide Marriage Equality

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President Obama is confident the Supreme Court will rule in favor of marriage equality in all four cases that currently stand before it, telling BuzzFeed in an interview Tuesday that it's time marriage equality became law of the land.

Asked how he believes the justices will rule in challenges to same-sex marriage bans in four states including Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, and Tennessee, President Obama said:

“My sense is that the Supreme Court is about to make a shift, one that I welcome, which is to recognize that — having hit a critical mass of states that have recognized same-sex marriage — it doesn’t make sense for us to now have this patchwork system. It’s time to recognize that under the equal protection clause of the United States Constitution, same-sex couples should have the same rights as anybody else.”

Many have projected the Supreme Court will rule in favor of nationwide marriage equality before the end of the current term, which would effectively squash Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's current attempts to block all same-sex marriages in the state, even though they're completely legal under state law.

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In the interview, President Obama responded to similarities between Moore's actions and the actions of officials in Alabama's civil rights past — specifically Gov. George Wallace's famous attempt to block black students from entering the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963.

"I won't say it's a perfect analogy, but there's a core principle here that's at stake, which is we have a supremacy clause in our Constitution," he said. "When federal law is in conflict with state law, federal law wins out."

He added: “My recollection is that Judge Moore had a similar problem with a federal court ruling that you couldn’t put a huge Ten Commandments statue in the middle of your courthouse and, ultimately, federal law was obeyed, and I think that the same thing will end up happening here."

Asked if there's anything he'd like to say to Judge Moore, Obama said “I think that the courts at the federal level will have something to say to him.”

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