President Obama’s Solicitor General Donald Verrilli said two things in Court Wednesday that may swing Justice Anthony Kennedy one way or the other on whether to uphold or strike down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). DOMA is the 1996 law that defines marriage for federal law and federal programs as one… Read more »
Posts Tagged: SCOTUS
SCOTUS Questions on Gay Marriage Would’ve Been a Sanity Test in Earlier Eras
RUSH: They were asking, as Justice Sotomayor did, “Is there any reason why a man can’t marry four women? Is there any reason why a woman couldn’t marry her child?” Now, these are the kinds of questions that courts used to use to establish that somebody’s a lunatic, because everybody agreed they were crazy ideas…. Read more »
SCOTUS May Throw Out DOMA Cases Due to DOJ Refusal to Defend
The Supreme Court’s justices spent a full hour in today’s DOMA case, U.S. v. Windsor, debating whether the case should be in court at all. In each DOMA lawsuit—including Windsor—the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) has a responsibility to defend DOMA against a constitutional challenge. But President Obama declared that he believes DOMA is unconstitutional… Read more »
Matthews And Christian Conservative Agree: Optimal When SCOTUS Doesn’t Intervene In Social Issues
Ralph Reed, the founder of the Faith And Freedom Coalition, joined MSNBC host Chris Matthews on Tuesday to debate the merits of state-level bans on gay marriage. After debating the issue of same-sex marriage rights, both Reed and Matthews agreed that, whichever way the Supreme Court rules on the legality of gay marriage bans, the… Read more »