Will the Supreme Court hear Perry v Brown (Prop 8 case)?

[scream4ever]

That's a bit premature. The justices may read that and say, "Is this all you've got?" and decide not to hear it.

I thought the exact same thing.

 

[JayHawk]

Kuli and Scream i was going to say the same thing but if anything mystifies me about American governance it is the SCOTUS so I really didnt know... and then if you throw out ten dollar words like certiorari i am done.....

 

[refujiunderground]

The petition for certiorari is in...

Prop 8 Supporters Petition For Supreme Court Hearing | Advocate.com

We're going to SCOTUS people!

exactly. GAY MARRIAGE HERE WE COME!!

there's NO WAY we can lose in court. if the lower federal appeal courts are saying doma is unconsititutional, you obviously know that the supreme court is going to have to toss it away too.

gay marriage will be legal in all 50 states by 2013. i'm 100 percent sure of that. i don't think the supreme court will say no especially since the political climate has changed in the last 30, 20 something years.

 

[hotatlboi]

gay marriage will be legal in all 50 states by 2013. i'm 100 percent sure of that.

I think you are going to be disappointed then.

 

[Kulindahr]

exactly. GAY MARRIAGE HERE WE COME!!

there's NO WAY we can lose in court. if the lower federal appeal courts are saying doma is unconsititutional, you obviously know that the supreme court is going to have to toss it away too.

gay marriage will be legal in all 50 states by 2013. i'm 100 percent sure of that. i don't think the supreme court will say no especially since the political climate has changed in the last 30, 20 something years.

Scalia and Thomas will say whatever they bloody well please, regardless of political climate or what lower courts are doing or that facts of the situation or even what the Constitution actually says.

 

[Ganymede4]

The case could be hear if the federal courts are having trouble (it have), challenge the Constitution (Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause), and/or friends of the court decision.

The Supreme Court probably will agree with same-sex marriage due the pressure of the people, lobbyists, and the International community

 

[Kulindahr]

SCOTUS is fairly immune to pressure from "people, lobbyists, and the International community". For that we can be thankful.

 

[TX-Beau]

I'm going to have to disagree Kuli. SUPPOSEDLY it is fairly immune, unless the justice has an agenda. Can anyone say election of 2000.

 

[Kulindahr]

I'm going to have to disagree Kuli. SUPPOSEDLY it is fairly immune, unless the justice has an agenda. Can anyone say election of 2000.

The decision for the 2000 election was amazingly impartial. Really all they did was throw it back at Florida and say "Follow your own laws!"

While I was rooting for them to throw out Florida, just to see one go to the House of Representatives.

 

[JayHawk]

Yeah the idea that 2000 was a plan or scheme or whatever is ignorant of the facts.

The people saying that come off as credible as birthers to me.

 

[TX-Beau]

Ignorant of the "facts" which facts are those?

 

[Benvolio]

Ignorant of the "facts" which facts are those?

Remember. the all-Democrat Supreme Court of Florida changed the law of Florida, in the middle of the counting, to say that the Election Boards, with a majority of Democrats, could just use their judgement when voters had not punched out the hole to vote. Remember the pictures on TV of counters examining ballots with a magnifying glass, pretending to find a vote?
All the USSC did was hold it was a violation of due process and equal protection to change the law in mid election.

 

[scream4ever]

Here's the response from Olsen and Boise as to why the Supreme Court should not grant certerori. After reading it I'm now even more convinced that they won't take the case.

Prop 8 Trial Tracker » Plaintiffs in challenge to Proposition 8 ask the Supreme Court to decline to review the case

 

[Benvolio]

As I said before at #14 eventually the USSC will uphold the right to gay marriage, this is not the case. The obvious answer is that CA cannot grant the right to marry and then take it away from those who have married. It does not need to reach the big question, so it will not.

 

[BostonPirate]

The Roberts court is one of the most politically activist courts the nation has ever seen. If they turn it down, it will be for political reasons first.

 

[scream4ever]

Is this perhaps another indication that the Supreme Court won't hear the appeal?

Joe. My. God.: Judge Orders Prop 8 Case Closed

 

[Ninja108]

Bottom line, all the prop 8 supporters were able to come up with for their logic was moral disapproval. That is not a valid reason to make people second class citizens under the law.

 

[Kulindahr]

Is this perhaps another indication that the Supreme Court won't hear the appeal?

Joe. My. God.: Judge Orders Prop 8 Case Closed

If the case is closed and all arguments for stays have been denied, doesn't that mean gays can marry in California now?

 

[TX-Beau]

that's what I thought.

 

[scream4ever]

That thing I posted was actually misleading. It was stimply "cleaning house" so to say. Still I think it's an indication that Ware sees what the final outcome will be.