Puerto Rico's Gay Marriage Ban UPHELD by Federal Judge

LA Slimes ^ | 21 Oct 2014 | Lauren Raab

[TomasUSMC]

FINALLY! NOW WAIT FOR THE GAY LOBBY TO BOYCOTT PR....AND WATCH TOURISM SOAR.

[xzins]

I think that it’s obvious that judges are political positions. The whole idea of a neutral judiciary was a pipe dream after the initial Founders had gone their way....maybe before.

Today, however, they clearly are political.

Our state of Ohio seems to run just fine with elected judges all the way to the state supreme court.. We need the same at the federal level.

I would organize their elections just as with Senators, and have 3 up for vote every 2 years. As with the president, I’d limit them to 2 terms of 4 years each.

The district and appeals courts would be 4 year terms as well with a limit of 2 terms. District courts would be per state and have rulings only valid within their own state, so it wouldn’t matter if New York had more district courts than did South Dakota. Their rulings would affect only New York.

The appeals courts would have geographic regions based on statistical/cluster population lines, and I’d increase their number to twelve but have 7 justices per appeals court.

[only1percent]

The First Circuit will reverse him, to be sure, but will have to grapple more extensively with Baker than prior Courts of Appeals' decisions have.

Ordinarily, this would invite cert from SCOTUS regardless of the substantive issue, but the Court should care intensely about when its past decisions can be deemed overruled by implication, but it has clearly taken the political decision that it's best for gay marriage to become law with no more SCOTUS dictate than Windsor.

It will still require the 5th, 6th, 8th or 11th Circuits to uphold one of the DOMAs under challenge before them for the Supremes to act.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Why does Puerto Rico get to choose but other states can’t?

Oh...you say because they’re “latino”? And that they have rights? And since I’m a gauchupino I don’t get to have the same say as they do?

[Chode]

and all the other states don't use the same law because???

[RobbyS]

Tell that ....Kennedy that. Most judges are leaping on his half ass opinion. to justify their refusal to reject the rationale of two centuries of family law.

[2harddrive]

The “Courts” only approved it in Puerto Rico because they are MINORITIES, and so they have more rights than regular Americans.