Too bad it'll probably take a few more YEARS to get to the Supreme Court
Hopefully after Obama is re-elected and has had a chance to replace Kennedy with someone more liberal...
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Consuela - Feb 07, 2012 9:15:40 am PST #20761 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
§ ita § - Feb 07, 2012 9:15:47 am PST #20762 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wow. It's like politically incorrect fest on this conference call. Christopher Columbus, genocide, and storming the beaches in WWII are being cited as justification for...well, who cares at this point?
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 07, 2012 9:19:23 am PST #20763 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Scalia and Kennedy are both 75—though Ginsburg is 78, so even likelier to be replaced during Obama's tenure—and the latter has voted in favor of gay rights (as well as abortion rights and extending the right of habeas corpus to Guantanamo Bay detainees). I don't think an eventual Supreme Court case will go well for ProtectMarriage.com.
Consuela - Feb 07, 2012 9:42:11 am PST #20764 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Scalia and Kennedy are both 75
Knowing Scalia, he's so well-pickled in his own bile, that he'll stick around out of sheer spite into his 90s.
Burrell - Feb 07, 2012 9:47:53 am PST #20765 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Wow, just read the ruling. There are some pretty great passages in there.
Ginsburg is ill, so I'm guessing she's going to retire fairly soon. sigh. Wish I disagreed with Suela about Scalia, but she's right like a thing that is right.
Consuela - Feb 07, 2012 9:50:01 am PST #20766 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Ginsburg is ill, so I'm guessing she's going to retire fairly soon.
She just has to stick it out until after the election. I hope she can.
Wish I disagreed with Suela about Scalia, but she's right like a thing that is right.
I wish I were wrong, but between him & Thomas, one of them is going to die in the saddle, just out of resentment.
Connie Neil - Feb 07, 2012 9:54:37 am PST #20767 of 30001
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She just has to stick it out until after the election. I hope she can.
She wouldn't be the first justice to hold on for such a thing.
Burrell - Feb 07, 2012 9:57:06 am PST #20768 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Thomas can't retire, he makes too much money selling his vote. Or, technically, profiting off the vote he was going to cast anyway.
le nubian - Feb 07, 2012 9:57:42 am PST #20769 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I'm still hoping that Thomas resigns soon due to ethics/conflict of interest violations.
Consuela - Feb 07, 2012 10:02:12 am PST #20770 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I'm still hoping that Thomas resigns soon due to ethics/conflict of interest violations.
I see no indication that he possesses the ability to be shamed into anything. And in the run-up to the election, nobody's going to try to make him.
I'm still reading the Prop 8 decision, but I'm intrigued that the judges have based their decision on the narrowest-possible argument: that Prop 8 took away a fundamental right from gay couples, even if they only had the right for 143 days.
The usefulness of this narrow decision is that if it gets overturned after a hearing en banc, or at the Supreme Court, it won't be a death blow to the fight for marriage equality nationwide. The sequence of events in California is so tortured that one might be able to distinguish any ruling associated with Prop 8.