[Blood of Tyrants]

There is no need for an amendment to the Constitution. All congress has to do is use the power to place the law defining marriage as a civil and legal union between one man and one woman outside of the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.

Article 3, Section 2, Clause 1 & 2 of the Constitution of the United States

Clause 1: The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;--to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;--to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;--to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;--to Controversies between two or more States;--between a State and Citizens of another State; (See Note 10)--between Citizens of different States, --between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.

Clause 2: In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.

No, there is nothing that will prevent them from changing the law in the future except our hot breath breathing down their necks.

[samadams2000]

Time for a star chamber overlay system? Tribal elder model.

[Jacquerie]

Agreed. Congress can rein in the court right now.

Tell me this though. What makes SCOTUS superior to state constitutions? I don't see any language in the federal Consitution that gives SCOTUS purvue.