(September 7, 2014 at 12:32 pm)Jaysyn Wrote:(September 7, 2014 at 11:46 am)Natachan Wrote: As I am a fierce supporter of gay marriage the idea of the issue going before THIS court scares me. IIRC there are five conservative and four liberal judges.
They'd literally have to throw out years of gender equality jurisprudence to come to that ruling. Not saying couldn't happen since Scalin is a truly evil waste of oxygen who has disagreed with his own previous rulings when it suited him. Of course doing that on such an incredibly hot button issue could very well lead to his impeachment, depending on the make up of Congress the time & how much we the people wanted his ass gone.
Except you can't impeach them for less than a felony. Unless you can show criminal misconduct they are in there till they die or retire. And as such they might rule that states have the right to determine marriage since it is an issue explicitly left to the states, and therefore the laws are valid. And making this decision would not be considered criminal misconduct.
