I think as time goes on, though, there will be more and more pressure on Congress, even Republicans, to do something if only, as with immigration reform, to remove it as an issue to be used against them.

I'd agree with everything but your final conclusion. I'm not sure how the votes fall if the Court decided it had standing. Certainly Sotomayor would vote to uphold the finding that Prop 8 should be struck down, but I'm sure Roberts wouldn't. That leaves Kennedy, and his opinion in the DOMA case notwithstanding, I'm…

Yeah. He sided with the majority there. But the DOMA dissent is the height of hypocrisy, especially considering what they did to the VRA yesterday.

Yeah. I think it's pretty clear where she would have gone if the Court had made a ruling on the merits.

To clarify, he threw the hissy fit in the DOMA case. The Court's decision is here.

It's especially infuriating that Scalia's dissent in DOMA was a long rant about how the court was overreaching its authority when just yesterday he sided with the court in overreaching its authority with regard to the VRA.

Sotomayor joined the dissent in arguing that the Court had standing to decide the case.

Absolutely. It's probably the right decision from a legal standpoint too.

Well, he was mad enough about the DOMA decision for two cases.

They didn't strike down Prop 8. They said the plaintiff didn't have standing to appeal the lower court decision, which means the lower court's opinion stands. Same end result, but not as broad as it should have been.

"On the next Walking Dead: Zombie Supreme Court Justices."

The former Mrs. Dweeze and I just had a justice of the peace. A dog officiant would have been much better.

You forgot to mention that he's 12 years younger than Scalia and only 65, so we've probably got another 15-20 years of him.

I didn't mean to imply that I think it would be a good thing. And I agree. The sad fact is that people would find another reason for not getting what they wanted that didn't involve them admitting they weren't qualified.

I've often thought that doing away with affirmative action in hiring and admissions would mean there would be an awful lot of people who would have to find a new reason why they didn't get the job they wanted/into the school they wanted.

This seems appropriate here.

Just the breasts sitting there? Not attached to anything?

Everyone knows the cheat code for picking up another human being, female or male, is L1 L1 Up Up R2 Blue R2 Down L2

WHAT'S WRONG WITH A GIANT COLLECTION OF STUFFED PIKACHUS?!?!?!?!?!?

Sorry. I mean, who would have a thing like that?

Thanks for the rec!

I said this in response to another post, but the Dems have to use this decision as a club against Republicans from now til election day 2014. It could be a big motivational issue for an off-year election.