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justiceischeap

(14,040 posts)
1. Based on yesterday's decision, I didn't expect this decision at all today.
Wed Jun 26, 2013, 10:56 AM
Jun 2013

So, I'm pleasantly surprised that SCOTUS deemed DOMA unconstitutional. That said, they screwed the pooch yesterday big time.

pnwmom

(108,978 posts)
2. I kinda did. I think they knew what was coming down with these two decisions,
Wed Jun 26, 2013, 10:58 AM
Jun 2013

so they felt that much freer to kill the VRA. They could pat themselves on the back and tell themselves how even-handed they are.

NoPasaran

(17,291 posts)
3. Yeah, yesterday you'd think they had handed down Dred Scott
Wed Jun 26, 2013, 11:02 AM
Jun 2013

Today they're heroes.

Just the way the wind shifts.

onehandle

(51,122 posts)
4. And armed gun nuts to the teeth in the name of corporate profits, resulting in the death of...
Wed Jun 26, 2013, 11:02 AM
Jun 2013

...twenty kindergartners plus hundreds of thousands of other Americans.



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