--- title: Morning Must Reads: June 25 description: All eyes are on the Supreme Court, which has seven cases yet to decide this term, including a decision that could legalize gay marriage nationally... canonical: https://time.com/3935362/morning-must-reads-june-25/ author: Zeke Miller article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-25T12:29:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-26T19:55:39.744Z article:section: Politics og:title: Morning Must Reads: June 25 og:description: All eyes are on the Supreme Court, which has seven cases yet to decide this term, including a decision that could legalize gay marriage nationally... og:url: https://time.com/3935362/morning-must-reads-june-25/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Morning Must Reads og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Morning Must Reads: June 25 twitter:description: All eyes are on the Supreme Court, which has seven cases yet to decide this term, including a decision that could legalize gay marriage nationally... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Morning Must Reads: June 25 (25 Jun 2015) > Sponsored content. 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Mark Wilson—Getty Images by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Jun 25, 2015 12:29 PM UTC All eyes are on the Supreme Court, which has seven cases yet to decide this term, including a decision that could legalize gay marriage nationally and another that could undermine a central component of the Affordable Care Act. The high court is currently scheduled to announce decisions today, Friday, and Monday before breaking for the summer. With a week before the deadline for an agreement, U.S. and Iranian negotiators continue to meet in Vienna to hammer out a deal on Iran’s nuclear program. Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz will join the talks Friday, but the odds of reaching an agreement have fallen in recent weeks amid escalating rhetoric from Iran. But the U.S. has a Plan B—or H—ready, should military strikes be needed. President Obama had a testy exchange with a protestor in the White House East Room upset with the administration’s immigration policies. And there was a case of mistaken identity on Capitol Hill. Here are your must-reads: **Must Reads** [A Guide to the Supreme Court’s Latest Obamacare Case](http://time.com/3933915/supreme-court-king-burwell/) TIME explains what is — and isn’t — at stake before the high court [Plan B For Iran](http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/plan-b-for-iran-119344.html?ml=m%5Ft1%5F2h&cmpid=sf#.VYtwAlVVikq) The U.S. preps a military option \[Politico\] [Obama scores a major trade win, burnishing his foreign policy legacy](http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-poised-for-a-major-trade-win-burnishing-his-foreign-policy-legacy/2015/06/24/e940c6fa-1a77-11e5-93b7-5eddc056ad8a%5Fstory.html) A hard-fought victory pays off — now he just has to negotiate the trade deal \[Washington Post\] [Poll Finds Backing for Gay Marriage and a Split on Health Law](http://www.wsj.com/articles/poll-finds-backing-for-gay-marriage-and-a-split-on-health-law-1435189035) Public firmly behind expanding same-sex marriage, but Obamacare remains controversial \[Wall Street Journal\] [Behind John Boehner’s crackdown on conservatives](http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/john-boehner-crackdown-conservatives-richard-nugent-gop-119389.html?hp=t3%5Fr) The Speaker enforces discipline in his conference for the first time \[Politico\] **Sound Off** “Listen, you’re in my house…it’s not respectful … Shame on you, you shouldn’t be doing this.” — President [Obama ](https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/613824689002053632)during a three-minute exchange with an immigration protester in the East Room on Wednesday “I don’t know how you can sit with somebody for an hour in a church and pray with them and get up and shoot them. That’s Mideast hate. That’s something I didn’t think we had here but apparently we do.” —South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham on accused Charleston shooter Dylann Roof **Bits and Bites** [Democratic Presidential Hopeful Jim Webb Defends Confederate Soldiers](http://time.com/3934237/jim-webb-confederate/) \[TIME\] [Chaffetz’s blunder: Right name, wrong man in OPM flap](http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/chaffetzs-blunder-right-name-wrong-man-in-opm-flap-119397.html) \[Politico\] [Rand Paul’s t shirts made in Guatemala](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/campaign-swag-and-made-in-america-in-the-2016-election/) \[CBS News\] [Alabama Governor Orders Removal of Confederate Flags From Capitol](http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/06/confederate%5Fflag%5Fremoved%5Ffrom.html) \[AL.com\] [Bobby Jindal announces candidacy, promises daughter a puppy](http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/politics/elections/2016/2015/06/24/29223309/) \[USA Today\] [Hillary Clinton’s ‘All Lives Matter’ Remark Stirs Backlash](http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/06/24/hillary-clintons-all-lives-matter-remark-stirs-backlash/?ref=politics&%5Fr=0) \[New York Times\] [Obama Cites Progress at Gay-Pride Reception](http://time.com/3934921/barack-obama-gay-pride/) \[TIME\] t ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3935362/morning-must-reads-june-25/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3935362/morning-must-reads-june-25/"},"headline":"Morning Must Reads: June 25 (25 Jun 2015)","datePublished":"2015-06-25T12:29:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-26T19:55:39.744Z","description":"All eyes are on the Supreme Court, which has seven cases yet to decide this term, including a decision that could legalize gay marriage nationally...","url":"https://time.com/3935362/morning-must-reads-june-25/","keywords":["Morning Must Reads"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Zeke Miller","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Morning Must Reads","caption":"Capitol","creditText":"Mark Wilson—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3935362/morning-must-reads-june-25/","name":"Morning Must Reads: June 25 (25 Jun 2015)"}}]}] ```