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To: NKP_Vet

Yes but California decided they didnt want gay marriage and a court over turned it and SCOTUS allowed that court decision to stand, and to me that isn’t the people of the state getting to decide.


169 posted on 06/26/2013 8:06:57 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: snarkytart; NKP_Vet
Yes but California decided they didnt want gay marriage and a state court over turned it and SCOTUS allowed that court decision to stand, and to me that isn’t the people of the state getting to decide."

Fixed it. There is a difference.

"“We have never before upheld the standing of a private party to defend the constitutionality of a state statute when state officials have chosen not to,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion. “We decline to do so for the first time here.”[1]

319 posted on 06/26/2013 11:41:14 AM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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