And other morsels from Antonin Scalia’s dissent in the DOMA case.
President calls Prop 8 plaintiffs on cell phone during live MSNBC interview. Watch.
One threat haunting the immigration reform legislative debate was that the bipartisan coalition supporting comprehensive immigration reform would come apart over providing equal rights to same-sex married couples in the context of US immigration law. The DOMA decision largely ends that debate since the federal government is no longer able to discriminate between opposite sex and same sex couples married in US states where it is legal.
That company that had the Obama and “the Ex” shooting range manequins introduces new targets based on a ‘gun control lobbyist’ and Rev. Al Sharpton.
Only 20 or so minutes left. But if you care to take a stab at guessing what SCOTUS has in store for marriage equality today, we’ve opened a prediction thread at TPMPrime.
Republicans across the Old Confederacy prep voter ID bills and other voting restrictions in the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling.
Just so everyone’s up to speed, SCOTUS has waited till the very last day, essentially. So we are basically guaranteed to hear the Court’s ruling today on the interrelated cases of DOMA (the Defense of Marriage Act) and Proposition 8, the 2008 California state ballot proposition to ban gay marriage in the state. We should get the initial word at about 10 AM eastern.
Of course, the Court has various potential outs, deferring the question on procedural grounds or finding other technical reasons why the case was brought with other technical shortcomings. But I don’t think that’s going to happen. For good or ill, I think we’re going to have some big decisions.