Friday, June 28, 2013

VRA DOMA

VRA Against

  1. John Roberts 
  2. Antonin Scalia,
  3. Anthony Kennedy
  4. Clarence Thomas
  5. Samuel Alito

VRA for

  1. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 
  2. Stephen Breyer
  3. Sonia Sotomayor
  4. Elena Kagan

http://newsbusters.org/sites/default/files/2012/2013-06-26-NBC-SR-JusticesDOMA.JPG

DOMA  Defense of Marriage Act Dissent - Justice Antonin Scalia

  1. John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, 
  2. Antonin Scalia,
  3. Clarence Thomas
  4. Samuel Alito
They tried to dodge the question by dismissing it alleging lack of "standing".
VRA for




  1. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 
  2. Stephen Breyer
  3. Sonia Sotomayor
  4. Elena Kagan
  5. Anthony Kennedy
The 5-4 ruling, authored by Chief Justice John Roberts and joined by Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito,

Ruth Bader Ginsburg issued a wide-ranging dissent on behalf of herself and Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan,

The liberal justices were particularly solicitous of Kennedy on Wednesday because the Reagan appointee gave every indication that he would be voting to strike down DOMA, as it is known. Early in the oral argument, the conservatives — Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts (a silent Clarence Thomas can be assumed to be their tacit tagalong) — explored the idea that the case might be disposed of on the technical grounds that no injury had been proved, a technique that would avoid a ruling calling DOMA unconstitutional..

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