05-26-2015, 01:10 AM
(05-25-2015, 09:32 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: I think it's safe to say that the four liberal judges (Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan) will rule against these bans. Alito, Scalia, and Thomas are almost 100% likely to believe that these bans should be upheld. That leaves Roberts and Kennedy. Kennedy sided in favor of the majority in the DOMA decision, which many believe is a sign that he will side with the liberal judges on this one. Roberts, like with the ACA decision, may side with the constitution on this one and make it a 6-3 in favor of striking down the bans. He only partially sided with Scalia on the Windsor (DOMA) case and his own dissent focused more on the whether the courts had the jurisdiction to hear that specific case. He mentions that they will likely soon hear a case on individual state bans and stated that the opinion of the DOMA case should not be used a precedent by lower states to make their decision on those cases. A lot of technical jargon, so it's hard to tell considering he was dissenting more on principle than the actual issue.
Ugh..... We will see, it will be a pain here if they do.... I wish they would stop forcing their lifestyle on us. They wanna change a law just vote on it. Not cry to the courts. Problem is they don't wanna move into Alabama ... They just wanna tell them what to do from New York .
