5-4 SSM WIN!!!!.SCOTUS--OBERGEFELL---OPINION...

[msanthrope]

http://www.scotusblog.com/

Oh, please....


WE WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kennedy Reading Majority.....four dissents to be read.....

HERE's THE OPINION...rests on Equal Protection and Fundamental Rights!!!

(2) The history of marriage is one of both continuity and change. Changes, such as the decline of arranged marriages and the abandonment of the law of coverture, have worked deep transformations in the structure of marriage, affecting aspects of marriage once viewed as essential. These new insights have strengthened, not weakened, the institution. Changed understandings of marriage are characteristic of a Nation where new dimensions of freedom become apparent to new generations.

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf

[msanthrope]

1. Kick---will stay on this. nt

[msanthrope]

2. 18 minutes....no word if it is being released today. nt

[msanthrope]

3. 13 minutes....still no word, SCOTUSBLOG is live and answering questions.

http://www.scotusblog.com/

[msanthrope]

4. 10 minutes, people. nt

[msanthrope]

5. If decision is read today, SCOTUSBLOG predicts Kennedy will read it. nt

[msanthrope]

6. Pobbible Glossip decision--Oklahoma death penalty use of midazolam. nt

[msanthrope]

7. FOUR BOXES!!!!! nt

[msanthrope]

8. Four Boxes should mean four decisions....nt

[Agschmid]

9. Sorry didn't see this thread I'll stick to it.

[msanthrope]

11. No problem....all hands on deck....nt

[msanthrope]

10. Other remaining cases....

Arizona redistricting (argued in February sitting), Clean Air Act (Utility Air Group v. EPA, argued in March sitting), Johnson v. US (Armed Career Criminal Act, re-argued in April), SSM (April), and Glossip v. Gross (lethal injection, April).

[Agschmid]

12. You think SSM will be the fifth and will be Monday?

[msanthrope]

14. It's entirely possible SCOTUS makes us wait the weekend.....gets rid of

the rest, and leaves SSM for Monday. WAIT----no--four decisions.....four bpxes....we may have the answer today....

That would be some serious judicial trolling, IMHO....to make us wait.

[Agschmid]

15. Yup!

[msanthrope]

17. I miscounted--it's four left, including SSM.....fingers crossed.....nt

[Agschmid]

16. Wow it's first!

[herding cats]

13. I really want to go to a wedding this weekend

They've been waiting for so long. Please, let it be today.

[msanthrope]

25. It is! nt

[herding cats]

37. I'm so excited!

This is a great, wonderful, awesome day!

[steve2470]

18. SSM is legal!

Holding: Fourteenth Amendment requires a state to license a marriage between two people of the same sex - See more at: http://live.scotusblog.com/Event/Live_blog_of_opinions__June_26_2015#sthash.2z88pA3k.dpuf

[Agschmid]

19. Wooohoooo!!!

[ChisolmTrailDem]

20. Off to the Greatest page for you! nt

[morningfog]

21. What an incredible path to marriage equality! So happy today.

[msanthrope]

22. 5-4 Kennedy reading the majority.....nt

[mmonk]

23. Excellent! Thought they were going to make people wait longer.

[msanthrope]

24. 12 years ago, Lawrence v. Texas!!! nt

[greatauntoftriplets]

26. WOO HOOOOO!

[msanthrope]

27. The opinion is stunning.....just stunning.

The history of marriage is one of both continuity and change. Changes, such as the decline of arranged marriages and the abandonment of the law of coverture, have worked deep transformations in the structure of marriage, affecting aspects of marriage once viewed as essential. These new insights have strengthened, not weakened, the institution. Changed understandings of marriage are characteristic of a Nation where new dimensions of freedom become apparent to new generations.

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf

[greatauntoftriplets]

28. That says it all. The concept of marriage has evolved over the years.

This is such great news.

[msanthrope]

30. No more coverture.....nt

[greatauntoftriplets]

31. And conservative heads are exploding!

[msanthrope]

33. Free Republic has gone insane--they are looking for the plagues to start...nt

[greatauntoftriplets]

34. I bet the Cavers are too.

[msanthrope]

35. Ah--the Cavers. Those poor, sad bastards who couldn't handle Freeperdom....nt

[mmonk]

29. Yep.

[bettyellen]

32. Beautifully stated!

[Sheepshank]

36. Some Friday's in this office are better than others.

Today is one of the very best!!!!!

[msanthrope]

39. Take your concern trash to another thread. nt

[Igel]

45. It's a form of marriage in some places.

And if marriage evolves and changes--presumably only in one direction--then you may have to wait for civil rights for polygamists for longer than 3 years, but there's no reason to think that there's any real moral principle that currently denies it won't be corrected.

Unless, of course, it's continued to be considered immoral, in which case the universe's moral arc continues to be ours. (That's sort of the problem with saying that our moral evolution is really a great, cosmic change towards ultimate justice. It confuses a small group of primates with some sort of anthropomorphized deistic universe. Not only are we the world, we are the deistic universe, lock, stock and barrel.)

[DURHAM D]

40. I would appreciate your thoughts as regards

our issues such as housing, employment, public accommodations, etc.

What are the implications after this decision?

[msanthrope]

41. I think we see a heightened scrutiny in this decision.....and I think by the invocation of

both EP, and fundamental rights, I think Kennedy has opened the floodgates, legally.

I want to read more erudite commentators, but I think the legal worm has finally, irrevocably, turned.

[William769]

42. YES! YES! YES!

[msanthrope]

43. Tears in my eyes, William. Happy ones. nt

[William769]

44. Same here.

My dog keeps looking at me trying to figure out what's wrong with me. My little sweetie.