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Michael Bindner
- Location
- Alexandria, Virginia, USA
- Birthday
- November 25
- Bio
- Author of Musings from the Christian Left, Director of the Iowa Center for Fiscal Equity
MY RECENT POSTS
- State TANF Spending and Its
Impact on Work Requirements
May 22, 2012 05:06PM - The Social Security
Administration: Is it Meeting
its...
May 22, 2012 08:53AM - Killing Traditional Marriage
May 17, 2012 04:52PM - Tax Reform: What It Could Mean
for Tribes and Territories
May 15, 2012 01:50PM - Medicare Physician Payments
May 10, 2012 11:46AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Not so sure. He needs to
fire up the young and this
will help
him do it.”
May 19, 2012 12:36PM - “No one in Obama's base
will ever vote for Romeny over
this.
The worst they
will…”
May 18, 2012 01:19AM - “There is no such
problem, because the
regulation of plans
will still
be mostly at…”
May 04, 2012 01:46AM - “Undercompensation by
both private insurance,
Medicare and
Medicaid are all
part o…”
May 01, 2012 02:00AM - “My understanding is that
it also had a role in
examining the
efficacy of
procedur…”
March 06, 2012 06:15PM
Snowden
Howard Schneider
Jonathan Wolfman
Kate O'hehir
Mango Sherbert
Lyn LeJeune
Salon.com
Comments
therefore, it can hardly be regarded as important news
No one should be quick to presume we’d loose if we went to SCOTUS today. The Cal decision was apparently crafted to win a 5-4 majority and since Scalia has already conceded that denial of marriage equality can not be reconciled with Lawrence and since he is bound be stare decisis, a 6-3 win is also possible. But you are right, we will ultimately prevail. Those ossified by orthodoxy already have one foot in the grave.
In the end it will all come down to one simple rule: Sorry, but you don’t get to vote on it. As the late Justice Robert H. Jackson wrote over 60 years ago,
"The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections."