{"id":186074,"date":"2014-05-20T18:06:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/05\/20\/fabulous-8\/"},"modified":"2014-05-20T18:06:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T23:06:00","slug":"fabulous-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/05\/20\/fabulous-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabulous!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not only did a federal judge overturn Pennsylvania’s gay marriage ban, but he cited Antonin Scalia in his opinion<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Upon striking down<\/a> Pennsylvania’s gay marriage ban Tuesday, a federal judge cited Justice Antonin Scalia’s “cogen[t]” argument that the Supreme Court had essentially paved the way for nationwide marriage equality last year.<\/span>
Here’s the relevant passage from George W. Bush-appointed Judge John E. Jones III in his 39-page opinion:<\/span><\/p>\n

As Justice Scalia cogently remarked in his dissent, \u201cif [Windsor] is meant to be an equal-protection opinion, it is a confusing one.\u201d Windsor, 133 S. Ct. at 2706 (Scalia, J., dissenting). Although Windsor did not identify the appropriate level of scrutiny, its discussion is manifestly not representative of deferential review. See id. (Scalia, J., dissenting) (observing that \u201cthe Court certainly does not apply anything that resembles [the rational-basis] framework\u201d (emphasis omitted)). The Court did not evaluate hypothetical justifications for the law but rather focused on the harm resulting from DOMA, which is inharmonious with deferential review.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It was a reference to Scalia’s scathing dissent<\/a> against the Court’s 5-4 opinion that struck down a portion of the Defense of Marriage Act which prohibited federal recognition of same-sex marriages. The Reagan-appointed justice warned that the majority decision — despite officially staying neutral on whether gay marriage was a Constitutional right — relied upon reasoning that would lead to that conclusion.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I will note that referencing a minority<\/b> opinion does not seem to me to be a common thing, (Note however, that I an engineer, not a lawyer, dammit*<\/sup>) but this is the 2nd<\/sup> or 3rd<\/sup> time that a judge has cited Scalia in making a decision invalidating a gay marriage ban.<\/p>\n

I’m beginning to think that the Federal Judiciary is conspiring to offer a very<\/b> well deserved f%$# you to Fat Tony Scalia.<\/p>\n

*<\/sup>I love<\/span><\/b> it when I get to go all Dr. McCoy!!!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not only did a federal judge overturn Pennsylvania’s gay marriage ban, but he cited Antonin Scalia in his opinion: Upon striking down Pennsylvania’s gay marriage ban Tuesday, a federal judge cited Justice Antonin Scalia’s “cogen[t]” argument that the Supreme Court had essentially paved the way for nationwide marriage equality last year.Here’s the relevant passage from …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,972,1030,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-justice","category-lgbtq","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}