(August 5, 2010 at 9:28 am)Eilonnwy Wrote: *nods* Kagan will be in there by the time this gets there, and I can't be sure if she'll be a liberal leaning judge. If she is, it will likely come down to Anthony Kennedy.
Edit: Listening to Rachel maddow and apparently Judge Walker quoted Kennedy in his judgment and Anthony Kennedy has historical voted for gay people. So I can see a Supreme court decision going 5-4, with Kennedy, Sotomayor, Breyers, Ginsberg, and Kagan voting for gay marriage, which would effectively have implications for federal marriage.
I know I'm a cynic, El, but I don't think that would bother the republicans at all.
First off, they never seem to actually settle issues like abortion or gay rights or immigration even in areas where they have control. One might almost think that they prefer having these issues around to keep their base of mental defectives fired up for fund raising purposes.
But, they couldn't be that cynical....could they?
