[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]
Liberal CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin attacked Governor Asa Hutichison on the 1 April 2015 edition of At This Hour, after the Arkansas Republican asked the state legislature to bring a proposed Religious Freedom Restoration Act closer to the original 1993 federal law: "This was political double-talk....The idea that you can compromise and find some language that allows people to not do business with gay people; and also, protect them...from discrimination, it's just impossible. There are no compromises available here."
Toobin also tried to play up the supposed distinction between Arkansas and Indiana's legislation and the twenty-plus-year-old statue signed by then-President Bill Clinton:
JEFFREY TOOBIN: Remember, the federal law...only says the federal government cannot impose on people's religious beliefs. It says nothing about private business. Trying to let florists and photographers and the people we've all been talking about for several weeks – to letting them discriminate is not something that was covered by the federal law at all. So it really is not much of a valid comparison.