Posted on 05/19/2014 9:51:02 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
“Seriously, what is the judge going to do?”
He can’t do all that much, but the Feds have used troops to enforce court orders.
yes, the feds have done such to enforce court orders in cases like Brown V Board I suppose, but when the bulk of the population agrees there is too much federal overreach and they are enforcing an order that doesn’t have the majority populace behind it (yet), I think that would be a pretty bad bone to pick with the states, especially certain ones.
It has been legally defeated and voted on in many states - there were many real efforts there. Most states that put it to a vote banned accepting homosexual marriage as being on par with traditional opposite sex marriages. The fact that judges make rulings such as this points to the fact that we have a problem with the judiciary. People should be impeaching judges that make such rulings - the fact that they’re not points to a growing problem with the people as well.
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