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FreeState (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 05:06 PM Original message |
State Supreme Court to hear challenges to Prop. 8 |
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FreeState (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 05:18 PM Response to Original message |
1. LA Times article |
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davidinalameda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 05:52 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. it's removing rights |
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This One (84 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 05:56 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. One would think |
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Maat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 06:15 PM Response to Original message |
4. Crap! |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 06:56 PM Response to Reply #4 |
16. My guess, and it's only a guess, is that they didn't want such marriages to weight the decisions. |
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Maat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 08:51 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. You may be right. |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 10:38 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Believe me, as a queer guy whose best friends are waiting to get married, me too! |
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David__77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 06:28 PM Response to Original message |
5. Doesn't look good. Better prepare for a future referendum. |
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FreeState (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 06:33 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Thats assuming that they only take cases they want to rule in favor of |
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David__77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 06:38 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. The Kennard thing is a key point. |
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FreeState (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 06:41 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Wasnt there a justice that was against the overturning of Prop 22 that actually |
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David__77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 06:46 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. No. |
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FreeState (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 06:55 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Thanks I just reread the dissenting opinions and |
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SidneyCarton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-20-08 05:30 PM Response to Reply #6 |
29. In frankness and honesty I think such a referendum would be a good idea, |
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GodlessBiker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 06:37 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. She may have thought the case should percolate through the lower courts? Maybe? |
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David__77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 06:42 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. That would seem odd. I'm hopeful. |
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GodlessBiker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 06:49 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Some judges get hung up on procedure. They don't want to open the floodgates for a direct path to.. |
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JimDandy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 11:03 PM Response to Reply #12 |
23. This is a constitutional issue. |
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GodlessBiker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 11:30 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. No. A constitutional issue often begins in the lowest level trial courts. And then... |
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scytherius (576 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 07:41 PM Response to Reply #5 |
17. Speaking as a former lawyer and jurist |
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greeneyedboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-20-08 01:11 AM Response to Reply #5 |
25. other interpretations of Kennard's statement |
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greeneyedboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-20-08 01:14 AM Response to Reply #5 |
26. dupe post - ignore :-) |
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HockeyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 06:54 PM Response to Original message |
13. It is going to have to go to the Supremes |
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GodlessBiker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 06:55 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Eventually it will, but it doesn't have to on account of this case. |
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scytherius (576 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 08:29 PM Response to Reply #13 |
19. Assuming a Federal issue is ruled upon. If not, they have no jurisdiction nt |
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HockeyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 06:00 PM Response to Reply #19 |
34. Loving v. Virginia |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-20-08 02:32 PM Response to Reply #13 |
28. Not too rapidly, I hope |
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Divine Discontent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 08:06 PM Response to Original message |
18. without knowing the legal mumbo jumbo, when I saw revision, I thought |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 10:39 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Well, and atheists. Except we're mostly just hated, not mocked. |
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Divine Discontent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-20-08 09:43 PM Response to Reply #22 |
33. ha... |
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robinlynne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-20-08 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
27. Isn't anyone going to step up and say count the votes. prop 8 has not passed yet! |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-20-08 05:33 PM Response to Reply #27 |
30. Excellent point! |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-20-08 05:40 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. If the court thought there was any real chance it was not going to pass |
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robinlynne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-20-08 08:45 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. It is not the court's place or anyone's place to decide what is going to pass without counting |
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