The Supremes....

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It is June and the end of the Supreme Court's session, and that means, release of what have been its decisions, or lack of decisions, if that what the Court decides.

There are four main case to be decided by the Court in this session and there should be a release of those decisions in the next two Mondays and Thursdays.

The ones that will generate the most media attention are the two gay marriage cases; DOMA and Prop 8. The other two deal with determining what direction civil rights will take with a case on preferential admissions and voting oversight in the O'lde South.

Clearly, if the Court takes an activist position on gay marriage it could end the issue as a cause and a concern for the left and right by declaring it a civil right covered by the Constitution, however, the Court could dodge the issue and remand Prop 8 as a state rights issue and only put more limits on DOMA vs. overturning it.

As to the civil rights cases, the Court could strike them, or, be nuance and otherwise change the direction as to how each should be enforced or limited.

Chances are not everyone is going to happy with the Court, be it left or right, or in-between.  What is however, clear is, there is going to be every chance that everyone is going to hear and see about it as the media will cry out  its judgement, on the judges and the Court.

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However, it appears that it will only apply to the 8th District, where multiparty and multispecies marriages could have legal precedent and everyone knows that is where the world ends and the waters begin, and in time, everything loose rolls to.

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err...errata, it is the 9th District, not the 8th.....

The 9th sits in San Francisco and covers; California, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and the Northern Marianas ...the 8th sits in St. Louis and covers mostly the Great Plains....

[LoveLife&Laughter]

...sure they will.

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Its getaway day for the Court and the finally decisions related to DOMA and Prop 8. 

As to DOMA, gone, 5-4, unequal and therefore unconstitutional, a libertarian viewpoint by the Court.  As to Prop 8, oops, no jurisdiction, 5-4, therefore the Appeals Court District 8 ruling stands, subject to further appeals and action at that level.  Gays in the 8th District will be able to marry, again subject to any further action at the district appeals level.

As to the Court's current situation, overall, the distinct differences on the Court continue with the conservative, libertarian side winning most of the decisions, and as such, those decisions have not been that radical nor precedent setting.  

Now Washington and the media can now settle into a summer slumber of heat, humidity and recess, with congress probably playing small ball until September which is not good for such outstanding legislation such as immigration.  And leave foreign affairs as the generator of whats and wherefores as the Middle East and other parts of  the world will bubble up on to the stage of concern and consternation. And, oh, there remain congressional investigations that will attempt to pin the tail on the donkey, or not.  And the ongoing sage of where is Snowden ,now.

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Re: ..."the conservative, libertarian side winning most of the decisions, and as such, those decisions have not been that radical nor precedent setting."

I suspect their rulings granting rich corporations are people worth civil rights protection  but blacks are not people needing civil rights protection at a time when the Republican (Libertarian, Conservative, Religious Right) Party already represents only corporations and discriminates against blacks voting rights... may be precedent setting.  

I would say. "Welcome to the third world of African and South American Countries, Stalin's Russia, Nazi Germany, etc."  

Won't that be a lot of ammunition for 2014 and 2016!