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Related: About this forumObama Will Ask Supreme Court to Reject Prop 8
Today's announcement that the Obama administration will file an amicus brief with the Supreme Court asking that it overturn California's ban on gay marriage suggests that the president's support for gay rights once considered lacking, but ever evolving has now checked nearly every box.When the president included the Stonewall riots among the nation's key civil rights moments in his second inaugural address, activists rejoiced warily. The Associated Press quoted Jon Davidson of Lambda Legal: "I was very moved, but there's a lot more to do in the four years to come. ... It's not like everything is fine." On the top of the list for many was the president taking a position on two key same-sex marriage cases currently on the Court's docket.
Which he has now done. Last weekend, the administration filed a brief in United States v. Windsor (which you can read here), arguing that the Defense of Marriage Act violates the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment by establishing two unequal classes for marriage, gay and straight. Obama had already decided in 2011 to stop defending DOMA in court; the brief moved the administration from "neutral" to "opposed." And then today came the decision to formally oppose California's Proposition 8, which in 2008 extended the state's definition of marriage to exclude same-sex couples. A blanket rejection of gay marriage bans under the equal protection clause in either case would have sweeping ramifications, basically making gay marriage legal in every state at once.
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-ask-supreme-court-reject-prop-8-finish-203704597.html
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Obama Will Ask Supreme Court to Reject Prop 8 (Original Post)
jenmito
Feb 2013
OP
How is it a dollar short and a day late when it hasn't been in front of the court yet?
Drunken Irishman
Mar 2013
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jenmito
(37,326 posts)1. Kick. n/t
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)2. A dollar short and a day late.
66 dmhlt
(1,941 posts)3. Better late than never
jenmito
(37,326 posts)4. Really? That's your attitude? You don't think it's a GOOD thing? n/t
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)6. How is it a dollar short and a day late when it hasn't been in front of the court yet?
What a dumb statement.
BlueDemKev
(3,003 posts)5. And the five conservative justices on the court will say "No."
We'll have to win (at least) the next two presidential elections to have any chance of getting a liberal Supreme Court.