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Human-Toad Hybrid Dick Morris: "Wake Up White People!"

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ausador12/07/2012 12:27:36 pm PST

It is the parts of the cases under which the court has agreed to hear them that are worrying.

Prop. 8 is granted on the petition question — whether 14th Am. bars Calif. from defining marriage in traditional way. Plus an added question: Whether the backers of Prop.. 8 have standing in the case under Art. III.

then in DOMA (Windsor)

In Windsor, the government petition (12-307) is the one granted. In addition to the petition question — whether Sec. 3 of DOMA violates equal protection under 5th Amendment, there are two other questions: does the fact that government agreed with the 2d CA decision deprive the Court of jurisdiction to hear and decide the case, and whether BLAG (House GOP leaders) has Art. III standing in this case.