Monday, June 22, 2015

This Could Be The Day

We’re getting near the end of June, which means the Supreme Court will be handing down the hot potato rulings.  They’ve already issued the easier ones — how hard was it to decide that a Confederate flag license plate was offensive? — so now we get to the tough cases such as marriage equality and subsidies for Obamacare.

To the outside observer, both cases should be easy calls: the Fourteenth Amendment and the basic idea of American democracy holds that all citizens are entitled to equal protection under the law and that includes what the Court determined nearly fifty years ago to be a “fundamental right:” that of letting people choose who to marry without state interference on the basis of innate qualities such as race.  As for the Obamacare subsidies, it’s clearly a question of nitpicking one sentence in a 2,000 page law that got by the proof-readers, and we will find out if indeed the Moops invaded Spain.

The Court has such a full load that they’re also handing down rulings on Thursdays, so we have today, Thursday, and a week from today to find out.  Stay tuned.

Update: No marriage or Obamacare ruling today.

Update II: The Court has now added this Friday as well.

One bark on “This Could Be The Day

  1. Think you good Gay Quakers are going to win….I’m leaning towards the good side on the Moops…..got serious doubts on the….it’s late on the west coast, forgive me for memory lapse….fair housing issue probably bites the dust, thanks to Uncle Thomas…..IGMFU ladder pull-up….hope to wake up to positive news on all fronts.

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