Discussion: Did The Supreme Court Just Tip Its Hand On Same-Sex Marriage Outcome?

runfastandwin · February 9, 2015, 6:26pm

Hey, if the shoe fits. Personal integrity left SCROTUS with Bush v. Gore.

antisachetdethe · February 9, 2015, 6:27pm

Bush did that to gain favor with right wing Republicans. The same Right wing Republicans who paid Bush back by voting for Buchanan in the 92 primaries and who either stayed home or voted for Perot in the 92 general election.

pdxer · February 9, 2015, 6:38pm

So he actually talks? I thought he just cashed a paycheck for doing the teabagger’s bidding.

seehowtheyrun · February 9, 2015, 6:40pm

Roy Moore and any judges who follow his order should be fired and disbarred: immediately.

ottnott · February 9, 2015, 7:23pm

His words were a bunch of legalese:

“This acquiescence may well be seen as a signal of the Court’s intended resolution of that question,” Thomas wrote. “This is not the proper way to discharge our Article III responsibilities. And, it is indecorous for this Court to pretend that it is.”

Here is the plain-English translation:
Even Antonin and I can’t figure out any Constitutionally-supported justification for banning same-sex marriage, and I’m pissed. Royally pissed.

sandyh · February 9, 2015, 7:36pm

Frick and Frack are at it again. They must be two of the most insecure heteros in the world. Don’t blame your hate and self-loathing on God or Beyonce. As Pope Francis has said, echoing what Jesus said, “Who are we mere mortals to judge one another?”

In a republic, all citizens have the same rights or none of us do. Thomas doesn’t want anyone to have any freedom and liberty because he doesn’t trust himself when it comes to letting democracy decide. He has to leave it up to some Higher Power…such as Scalia. Not my idea of a godly figure.

sandyh · February 9, 2015, 7:38pm

I believe he’s Scalia’s man servant.

sandyh · February 9, 2015, 7:39pm

Poppy must have been indulging on the poppies?

alansnipes734 · February 9, 2015, 7:39pm

It is incredulous that Thomas is feeling sorry for states who passed laws that discriminate against people, yet says nothing about the rights of people the states are discriminating against. Good thing he was not on the court when Loving v. Virginia was decided, let alone any other civil rights laws.

dave_adams · February 9, 2015, 7:54pm

Oh yeah, I’m sure they would have gotten around to it- someday: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/18/mississippi-13th-amendment_n_2712289.html

dswx · February 9, 2015, 7:58pm

Has Thomas ever differed from Scalia on anything? He does just as Scalia tells him too.

flownover · February 9, 2015, 8:00pm

Hell, state’s rights would have prevented him from taking her to the movies or for a soda at Woolworth’s counter after. Interracial marriage wasn’t even comprehensible.

baffie2 · February 9, 2015, 8:05pm

Anything that pisses off Clarence Thomas, makes my day.

valgalky23 · February 9, 2015, 8:31pm

A former SCOTUS did “corporations are people” long before Bush v Gore.

bluejoubert · February 9, 2015, 8:43pm

Or Catholic agendas.

longtail · February 9, 2015, 8:54pm

Long John speaks!!!

longtail · February 9, 2015, 8:56pm

Maybe he’s sorry he was allowed to take her on that first date and just wants to protect others from making similar mistakes.

hoppy · February 9, 2015, 8:56pm

So, in your mind judicial philosophies overrule common sense and human decency?

fiftygigs · February 9, 2015, 9:07pm

“…Today’s decision represents yet another example of this Court’s increasingly cavalier attitude toward the States…”

What he tipped his hand about is his belief, not in the States, but in the singular righteousness of the Feds.

The fact is States are finding what conservatives want to paper over, because conservatives want every state to ban it. They’d never in a million years tolerate even one.

old_curmudgeon · February 9, 2015, 9:11pm

Did the Supreme Court tip its hand? Duh, uh.

But the court really tipped its hand when it refused to overturn the 10th Circuit’s refusal to stay the decision overturning Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage.