Tag Archives: SCOTUS

SCOTUS Reactions

MA Attorney General Martha Coakley We believe that the First Circuit’s ruling striking down the Defense of Marriage Act was correct and we look forward to the time when that discriminatory law is conclusively invalidated. Though the Supreme Court has chosen to take up the issue of DOMA’s constitutionality in another case – Windsor v. United States – my office …

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SCOTUSblog Says Stand By…

SCOTUSblog has posted an “editor’s note” at the top of their site: “We anticipate orders, including likely in the same-sex marriage cases, this afternoon. We will be live blogging beginning around 2:00PM. Monday morning, we expect further orders and opinion(s).” That’s the only “news” today at this writing. UPDATE: Their live-blog is now running. They advise that any denials, which …

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NEVADA: Anti-Gay Group Bypasses Appeals Court And Asks SCOTUS To Rule On Same-Sex Marriage Ban

The anti-gay group that just won the battle to uphold Nevada’s same-sex marriage ban is apparently fearful that Lambda Legal’s promised appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court won’t go their way.  Yesterday they went directly to the Supreme Court even though they just won their case. The Coalition for the Protection of Marriage said the case crystalizes the fundamental question …

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FRC Prays For SCOTUS

The Family Research Council’s prayer of the day: God, our nation is flooded with sin and debauchery. Move upon our Supreme Court to uphold the Constitution, the laws of Congress, the will of the people, and “the laws of nature and of nature’s God.” Cause us to return to you. Send revival to your Church and awakening to our nation …

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Matt Baume: Marriage News Watch

Clip recap: More suspense from the Supreme Court, with an announcement in the Prop 8 case pushed back to Friday at the earliest. Meanwhile, a setback in a Nevada lawsuit, but now the case goes to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. That court previously ruled in favor of marriage equality in the Prop 8 case. And with a string …

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Christian TV Is Worried About SCOTUS

CBN host to NOM spokesbigot Thomas Peters: “Do you feel like you’re trying to stop an avalanche with a picket fence?”

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No SCOTUS Decision AGAIN

SCOTUSblog has the non-word: “The Supreme Court on Monday released added orders from its Friday Conference, but the list did not include any on the ten cases dealing with the same-sex marriage issue.  It now appears that those cases will be rescheduled for the Conference this Friday.” This is getting really fucking tiresome. Today’s list of orders is here.

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We Could Know By 9:30AM Tomorrow

A reminder just issued by AFER: Tomorrow, the United States Supreme Court could announce whether it has granted or denied review in Hollingsworth v. Perry (formerly Perry v. Brown), the federal constitutional challenge to California’s Proposition 8. The Perry case, along with several cases challenging the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), were distributed for discussion at the Justices’ private …

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No News From SCOTUS For Today

SCOTUSblog reports: “The Supreme Court, after taking most of the day to prepare new orders, took no action Friday on the ten same-sex marriage cases now on the docket.” We might know something on Monday. Maybe. UPDATE: Lambda Legal’s John Davison weighs in. The Court may announce on Monday that there are additional cases that it has decided to review. …

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Editorial Of The Day

From Tom Goldstein at SCOTUSblog: At their Conference today, the Justices will consider petitions raising federal constitutional issues related to same-sex marriage. These are the most significant cases these nine Justices have ever considered, and probably that they will ever decide. I have never before seen cases that I believed would be discussed two hundred years from now. Bush v. …

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San Francisco Asks Appeals Court For Advance Notice Of New Weddings

As we oh-so-anxiously await tomorrow’s news from the Supreme Court, Buzzfeed reporter Chris Geidner notes that the city of San Francisco is asking for a 24-hour advance notice on the possible ruling that again allows same-sex weddings in California. The city asked for the notice in a letter from Chief Deputy City Attorney Therese M. Stewart to the Ninth Circuit …

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AFER Recaps Legal History Of Marriage

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SCOTUS Orders Lower Court To Reopen Liberty Counsel’s Obamacare Suit

Today the Supreme Court ordered the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to take another look at Liberty University’s anti-Obamacare lawsuit. The Supreme Court responded to a request from Liberty University, one of the groups that sued over the health care law’s individual mandate in 2010. When the court ruled in June that the mandate was constitutional, it dismissed Liberty’s entire …

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Matt Baume: Marriage News Watch

Clip description: The Supreme Court is just days away from deciding whether to take the Prop 8 case. Depending on how they rule, we could see marriages starting in California, Maine, Washington and Maryland all within the span of a few weeks. Plus with new survey data out this week, it’s now been two and a half years since our …

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Protect Marriage Needs Tons Of Money To Fight Supreme Court Prop 8 Case

Saying that they are confident that the Supreme Court will hear their appeal of the overturn of Proposition 8, today Protect Marriage head Andy Pugno sent out a plea for donations. Via email: For our team to perform at the highest level of excellence, we must be able to supply them with the resources needed to go up against the …

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BREAKING: Supreme Court Pushes Back DOMA & Prop 8 Cases By Ten Days

An update from AFER: AFER just received word from the U.S. Supreme Court that it will discuss whether to hear AFER’s federal constitutional challenge to California’s Proposition 8 at its private Conference on Friday, November 30. The Court will also consider on that date whether it will hear one or more challenges to the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). …

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Reuters: Gay Marriage Sweep Could Influence SCOTUS On DOMA/Prop8

Reuters speculates: Historically, the Supreme Court has provided a single national framework on social issues like same-sex marriage, said James Essex, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union. But it generally does so only after much of the country has reached a consensus, said Essex, who helped bring one of the challenges to the Defense of Marriage Act. In …

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Tony Perkins: If SCOTUS Legalizes Gay Marriage, We’ll Have A Revolution

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MAINE: Despite SCOTUS Loss, NOM Continues To Evade Donor Disclosure

Via press release from Mainers United: In a campaign finance report filed Thursday with the Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices, NOM reported raising and spending more than $250,000 to influence Question 1 on the November ballot. Question 1 would allow same-sex couples to receive a marriage license from the state while protecting religious freedom. In a practice …

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