The Supreme Court did not announce today whether or not it would hear cases on Prop 8 and DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 that bans the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages. The Court had announced it was delaying from the 20th its decision to today, but apparently has not decided to announce its decision yet.
“No action on same-sex marriage,” Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog writes:
The Supreme Court, after taking most of the day to prepare new orders, took no action Friday on the ten same-sex marriage cases now on the docket.
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The next opportunity for the Court to issue orders will be at 9:30 a.m. Monday. Nothing has ruled out the possibility that some actions on same-sex marriage could be announced at that time, although there is no indation [sic] that that will occur. It may be that the Court needs more time to decide what it wants to do next on any of the cases.
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Well DUH! Please some lawyer type..what does this mean? How long can they kick the can down the road? The whole term?
It could mean that they're giving somebody time to write a dissenting note about what the Court has decided to do. Particularly if they were to decline to take the Prop. 8 case, I'd expect a vitriolic dissent from Justice Scalia.
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