Supreme Court Will Have Pick of Three Marriage Cases Next Session
When the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court reconvene for their next session in October, they will have at least three cases regarding same-sex marriage to possibly consider.
An antigay activist group defending bans on same-sex marriage written into the Virginia and Oklahoma state constitutions announced its intent to file requests for the nation's highest court to consider those cases, a process known as writ of certiorari, reports the Washington Blade. Last month the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court's ruling that found Virginia's voter-approved ban on marriage equality violated of the U.S. Constitution.
Another attorney with the same antigay group, Alliance Defending Freedom, announced Friday that the group would also appeal the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals' decision affirming that Oklahoma's ban on same-sex marriage was also unconstitutional, according to The Oklahoman.
Since Utah officials last month announced their plan to appeal the decision striking down that state's ban on same-sex marriage to the nation's highest court, the Supreme Court will have at least three cases regarding same-sex marriage to consider next October.
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But Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the court "won't duck" the issue of marriage equality, telling Katie Couric last week that she expects same-sex marriage to come before the court "if not in the new term, then in the term after, or the one after that." Ginsburg, the second woman appointed to the nation's highest court, its first female Jewish justice, and a reliably progressive voice on the court for 21 years, declined to speculate on how the court might rule when it does consider the issue, though she offered a wily smile when giving her remarks to Couric.
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