Supreme Court to South Carolina: Drop dead
10/8/14
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By RICHARD THOMPSON and ERIN ELIZABETH MERSINO, Thomas More Law Center,
from Politico,
10/6/14:
The justices don’t care what voters think. Is that democracy?
There is little more profoundly American than the concept that we are a nation of duly enacted, just laws. Monday’s Supreme Court decision not to hear cases regarding so-called same-sex marriage, however, turns this concept on its head in two ways. First, the decision undermined the fundamental basis of a democracy—that laws reflect the will of the majority. Secondly, today’s ruling robbed parties and states of their day in court.
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