{"id":15097,"date":"2013-06-25T19:26:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T19:26:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-06-25T19:26:21","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T19:26:21","slug":"marriage-equality-decisions-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/25\/marriage-equality-decisions-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage Equality Decisions Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Final day of Supreme Court&#8217;s term will bring some sort of outcome on both DOMA and Prop 8<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>Around 7AM California time tomorrow, we&#8217;ll <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/crime-courts\/ci_23534485\/u-s-supreme-court-expected-decide-gay-marriage\">get the decision from the Supreme Court<\/a>. I&#8217;ve already <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/15075\/the-coming-decision-on-prop-8\">summarized possible outcomes of Prop 8<\/a>, and the DOMA decision seems likely to yield a more firm decision.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the Supreme Court marched down the road towards pretending the world is color blind. While they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2013\/06\/opinion-recap-voting-law-in-deep-peril\/\">didn&#8217;t totally strike down the effective portion of the Voting Rights Act<\/a>, they did demand that Congress redraw the map. Considering Congress can&#8217;t even agree on post office names, that seems a big hurdle.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, I&#8217;ll be among the first to download the decisions (and re-post them) for your reading pleasure. I&#8217;ll chime in with my own thoughts once I&#8217;ve had a chance to read the decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>Final day of Supreme Court&#8217;s term will bring some sort of outcome on both DOMA and Prop 8<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>Around 7AM California time tomorrow, we&#8217;ll <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/crime-courts\/ci_23534485\/u-s-supreme-court-expected-decide-gay-marriage\">get the decision from the Supreme Court<\/a>. I&#8217;ve already <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/15075\/the-coming-decision-on-prop-8\">summarized possible outcomes of Prop 8<\/a>, and the DOMA decision seems likely to yield a more firm decision.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the Supreme Court marched down the road towards pretending the world is color blind. While they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2013\/06\/opinion-recap-voting-law-in-deep-peril\/\">didn&#8217;t totally strike down the effective portion of the Voting Rights Act<\/a>, they did demand that Congress redraw the map. Considering Congress can&#8217;t even agree on post office names, that seems a big hurdle.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, I&#8217;ll be among the first to download the decisions (and re-post them) for your reading pleasure. I&#8217;ll chime in with my own thoughts once I&#8217;ve had a chance to read the decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[558,11132],"class_list":["post-15097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-558","tag-11132"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3Vv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}