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The Apocalypse? Or Is It Just Me?
Very happy for many of my friends with regards to the Supreme Court decisions regarding marriage. Mazel tov!
However...when I read who was on the majority of the Prop. 8 decision, my brain exploded.
Scalia and Roberts helping to strike down Prop. 8??!WTF?
Kennedy and Sotomayor dissenting??!?
If there were a betting pool, I SO would have lost money with any combination of judges I would have thought possible.
Now, the HuffPost did explain:
If March's oral arguments were any indication, the justices' unusual alliances on Wednesday -- Scalia and Roberts with three liberals in the majority and Sotomayor joining Kennedy and two conservatives in dissent -- would have realigned to their usual ideological divides had they at all even noted Proposition 8's constitutional merits in their opinions.
Still...if anyone has a *simple* explanation for this juxtaposition of judges, I'd love to hear it.
However...when I read who was on the majority of the Prop. 8 decision, my brain exploded.
Scalia and Roberts helping to strike down Prop. 8??!WTF?
Kennedy and Sotomayor dissenting??!?
If there were a betting pool, I SO would have lost money with any combination of judges I would have thought possible.
Now, the HuffPost did explain:
If March's oral arguments were any indication, the justices' unusual alliances on Wednesday -- Scalia and Roberts with three liberals in the majority and Sotomayor joining Kennedy and two conservatives in dissent -- would have realigned to their usual ideological divides had they at all even noted Proposition 8's constitutional merits in their opinions.
Still...if anyone has a *simple* explanation for this juxtaposition of judges, I'd love to hear it.
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The Ruling is solely on the lack of Legal Standing of Prop 8 Repeal Challenge, not on Prop 8 itself. So it's a legal issue.
I think they way it works is that, Roberts took polls and said it's going to be 5-4 with Prop 8 going down in all cases (with different 5-4). So which one do we settle on, and they chose the least ideologue decision.
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