{"id":17055,"date":"2013-06-26T09:41:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T14:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=17055"},"modified":"2013-06-26T09:41:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T14:41:34","slug":"californial-prop-8-struck-down-by-scotus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/26\/californial-prop-8-struck-down-by-scotus\/","title":{"rendered":"Californial Prop 8 Struck Down by Scotus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/nation-world\/ci_23542472\/u-s-supreme-court-strikes-down-federal-ban\">Mercury News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a ruling that assures further legal battles, the high court found that backers of Proposition 8 did not have the legal right to defend the voter-approved gay marriage ban in place of the governor and attorney general, who have refused to press appeals of a federal judge&#8217;s 2010 ruling finding the law unconstitutional.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was a 5-4 decision, usual suspects.<\/p>\n<p>Reminder: Who is on the Supreme Court matters.<\/p>\n<p>Reminder: Who is in the White House matters to who is on the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Reminder: Which party controls the Senate matters to the ability of whomever is in the White House to determine who is on the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Reminder: The Senate has boneheaded rules so the above reminder isn\u2019t just about a majority, but about a \u201csupermajority\u201d of 60\/100.<\/p>\n<p>Reminder: The Republicans want to restrict marriage, what you do in your bedroom, and reproductive rights of women. The Democrats don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Reminder: Party politics is important, ignore that at your peril.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Mercury News: In a ruling that assures further legal battles, the high court found that backers of Proposition 8 did not have the legal right to defend the voter-approved gay marriage ban in place of the governor and attorney general, who have refused to press appeals of a federal judge&#8217;s 2010 ruling finding the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/26\/californial-prop-8-struck-down-by-scotus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Californial Prop 8 Struck Down by Scotus<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3758,896,558,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4r5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}