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Life is too busy - I have too much on my plate. Just not sure what to try scraping off.
Yesterday's ruling out of the 6th is really disturbing me, although it may not be the horrendous thing it felt to be when I read the news. For those that have not yet heard, the 3 judge panel at the 6th circuit upheld the bans on marriage for same sex couples in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. It reverses the Federal district court rulings in all four of those states.
Why is this not necessarily a bad thing? It will likely get the issue in front of SCOTUS sooner rather than later, as in potentially this session, rather than next year (June of '15, instead of '16). We were bound to have a split in the circuits sooner or later, though I had expected that to come from the 5th circuit (Mississippi, Louisiana & Texas) sometime early in the new year. I'm anxious about the health of Ginsburg and to a lesser extent, Bryer, and I have no desire for this to come before the court without them on the panel. Further the dissent written by Daughtrey in the 6th is blistering. She really took aim at the opinion being penned by Sutton and signed onto by Cook, and what she says is really directed at Kennedy to intervene when it comes to SCOTUS.
And I quote: "Because the correct result is so obvious, one is tempted to speculate that the majority has purposefully taken the contrary position to create the circuit split regarding the legality of same-sex marriage that could prompt a grant of certiorari by the Supreme Court and an end to the uncertainty of status and the interstate chaos that the current discrepancy in state laws threatens."
On the up side, Missouri ruled today; a federal district judge ruled the whole state honor marriage equality, although the ruling is stayed, pending appeal. A State court judge did the same thing 2 days ago, but his ruling only grants the right in ST Louis and that was not stayed. Folks are already marrying in St Louis, and if reports are correct Kansas City as well, at least for the moment. Also today, West Virginia's ban was formally overturned by federal district court judge, though marriages there started a couple of weeks ago after SCOTUS denied Cert in the Virgina case.
Need to keep thinking positively.......
Yesterday's ruling out of the 6th is really disturbing me, although it may not be the horrendous thing it felt to be when I read the news. For those that have not yet heard, the 3 judge panel at the 6th circuit upheld the bans on marriage for same sex couples in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. It reverses the Federal district court rulings in all four of those states.
Why is this not necessarily a bad thing? It will likely get the issue in front of SCOTUS sooner rather than later, as in potentially this session, rather than next year (June of '15, instead of '16). We were bound to have a split in the circuits sooner or later, though I had expected that to come from the 5th circuit (Mississippi, Louisiana & Texas) sometime early in the new year. I'm anxious about the health of Ginsburg and to a lesser extent, Bryer, and I have no desire for this to come before the court without them on the panel. Further the dissent written by Daughtrey in the 6th is blistering. She really took aim at the opinion being penned by Sutton and signed onto by Cook, and what she says is really directed at Kennedy to intervene when it comes to SCOTUS.
And I quote: "Because the correct result is so obvious, one is tempted to speculate that the majority has purposefully taken the contrary position to create the circuit split regarding the legality of same-sex marriage that could prompt a grant of certiorari by the Supreme Court and an end to the uncertainty of status and the interstate chaos that the current discrepancy in state laws threatens."
On the up side, Missouri ruled today; a federal district judge ruled the whole state honor marriage equality, although the ruling is stayed, pending appeal. A State court judge did the same thing 2 days ago, but his ruling only grants the right in ST Louis and that was not stayed. Folks are already marrying in St Louis, and if reports are correct Kansas City as well, at least for the moment. Also today, West Virginia's ban was formally overturned by federal district court judge, though marriages there started a couple of weeks ago after SCOTUS denied Cert in the Virgina case.
Need to keep thinking positively.......
