“Today’s decision shows that decades of attempts to restrain this Court’s abuse of its authority have failed”. “The five Justices who compose today’s majority are entirely comfortable concluding that every State violated the Constitution for all of the 135 years between the Fourteenth Amendment’s ratification and Massachusetts’ permitting of same-sex marriages in 2003″.
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However, the court’s four most conservative justices penned dissents – with the ultra-conservative Justice Scalia penning the most venomous. A place where Confederate flags are replaced by rainbow flags, traditional marriage “is dead”, and the health care system is now being run by the Chief Justice.
Cruz was referring to two decisions Roberts’ court has made. The truth is that religious liberty remains a central American value. The legislation, SB 277, would eliminate the personal belief exemption in California – a waiver that has allowed parents to avoid vaccinating their kids and has led to disease outbreaks. Bush, penned within the 6-3 act that often Congress clearly for the taxes subsidies that aid in a lot of low- and moderate-income mankind pay for confidential medical health insurance to retail for all 50 tells us.
So how will the Court decide such cases? In a landmark decision, the USA Supreme Court voted 5-4 to extend gay marriage nationwide, the Chron reports.
So, in Roberts’ view, it was “the court’s task to determine the correct reading” of the law. The answer in recent years: either Roberts’ or Kennedy’s.
All three opinions landed on a June 26, and all were written by Scalia’s fellow Reagan appointee, Kennedy. Justice Kennedy held that the government may not infringe the liberty to marry absent a compelling interest and along narrowly tailored lines.
Roberts has been on the same side in all these cases, but his single, momentous vote in 2012 to uphold the health care overhaul has altered perceptions of him.
But ‘jiggery-pokery’ lived again Friday when Scalia dissented in the same-sex marriage case.
“One thing that’s clear about Roberts is that he is very concerned about the court as an institution, its perception and its institutional legitimacy”, said Brianne Gorod, appellate counsel at the liberal Constitutional Accountability Center.
“Well into the 20th century, many States condemned same-sex intimacy as immoral, and homosexuality was treated as an illness”.
Roberts dismissed this language as essentially meaningless.
Justice Antonin Scalia’s dissent to Friday’s gay marriage opinion was cogent, acerbic and colorful as a rainbow. He’s a don’t rock the boat justice on a court that likes to rock the boat.
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“Today’s decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court,” he wrote, reported The Hill. “Whether that reflects a real shift or just a blip is anybody’s guess”.
