HBO has a new documentary, The Loving Story, which tells the story of Mildred and Richard Loving. Here is a review.

Howard Wasserman draws some parallels to the present:

A fun parlor game for law-and-policy geeks is to argue over what legal issues we will look back on 50 years from now and say  “how could that have possibly been up for debate?”. I believe same-sex marriage will be one such issue–much as we now view anti-miscegination laws.

I think he’s right.

Here’s a trailer: