Wednesday, March 27, 2013

DOMA as a states’ rights problem? Today’s oral argument in Plain English



...after yesterday’s argument in the Proposition 8 case, when it became apparent that there might well be five votes to hold that the sponsors of the California initiative lacked a legal right to defend the initiative in court, all eyes focused today even more closely on the first fifty minutes of oral argument, which the Court had set aside to consider the question of its authority to hear the case. - SCOTUS Blog

Drudge headlines:
PRESS: Defense of Marriage Act in jeopardy...
TOOBIN: 'DOMA's in trouble'...
POLITICO: On 'shaky footing'...
Concerned about 'conflict' with states' rights...