Justices Clarence Thomas And Antonin Scalia Are Not Happy
They apparently wish the Supreme Court had heard appeals of cases challenging states’ bans on same-sex couples’ marriages.
They apparently wish the Supreme Court had heard appeals of cases challenging states’ bans on same-sex couples’ marriages.
After a brief stay, the Supreme Court denies government officials’ request to keep Arizona’s Proposition 100 in effect during an appeal request.
Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas would have stopped them.
The ruling is on hold until noon on Nov. 20.
A disagreement over whether a non-discrimination bill should include gender identity protections sends Republicans and national LGBT groups scrambling. A key player has gone rogue, two sources say.
With federal workplace legislation stalled, most LGBT advocates appear ready to embrace a 2012 ruling from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that protects trans workers. Except one: the National LGBTQ Task Force.
Sotomayor calls for a response to Kansas’ request for a stay pending appeal by 5 p.m. Tuesday.
While several progressive, particularly civil rights groups, praised Obama’s nomination of U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch to be the next attorney general, the American Civil Liberties Union was silent.
“We were married, not married, married, not married,” Sophy Jesty says of her fight to force Tennessee to recognize her marriage to Val Tanco. “Right now, our family remains legally divided.”
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals denied Kansas’ request to keep marriages on hold during any attempted appeal by the state.
The justices agree to hear challenge by conservatives to subsidies under the federal health exchange.
If confirmed by the Senate, Lynch will be the first black woman to hold the post.
A second ruling in the state this week. [Update: Same-sex couples are marrying Friday in Jackson County, Missouri.]
Update: Couples from the Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee marriage cases all will be seeking Supreme Court review. BuzzFeed News talks with the lawyers for the same-sex couples in all four states’ cases.
6th Circuit Court of Appeals splits with other federal appeals courts, upholding Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee’s bans. The decision sets up a likely Supreme Court showdown over the issue.
Will the president keep liberalism on the table by nominating Tom Perez?
“[T]he infringement of the fundamental right to marry … is unconstitutional in violation of the Due Process Clause to the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.”
“[T]he Court concludes that Kansas’ same-sex marriage ban violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.” No marriages immediately, as ruling is on hold until Nov. 11. [Update: Kansas attorney general will appeal the ruling.]
The GOP picks up seats, holds on to key governors’ races, and winning governors’ races in some blue states.
Locations chosen based on department’s “independent and nonpartisan consideration and expertise,” Attorney General Eric Holder says.