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DonRedwood

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5. um...ok, now pretend you are explaining it to a 3rd grader please. I can't tell if this is good or

Reply to blueclown (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 11, 2012, 08:18 PM

Dec 2012

bad?

I sure don't want the states deciding it. I want my domestic partnership to give me full rights of a married couple.

i.e., my partner visiting me in the hospital if I had to be hospitalized in florida.

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Supreme Court Asks Lawyer To Argue Special DOMA Question [View all] TrogL Dec 2012 OP

"that the Executive Branch's agreement with the court below that DOMA is unconstitutional" is part jody Dec 2012 #1

The Supreme Court did the same thing in the Affordable Care Act case. blueclown Dec 2012 #2

Thanks from a non lawyer. nt jody Dec 2012 #3

um...ok, now pretend you are explaining it to a 3rd grader please. I can't tell if this is good or DonRedwood Dec 2012 #5

It's neither. blueclown Dec 2012 #8

Thanks for your explanations, but I still don't understand what happens if the karynnj Dec 2012 #9

Unless the court explicitly states so, then no. blueclown Dec 2012 #11

Thanks! karynnj Dec 2012 #12

It makes sense Tempest Dec 2012 #4

A bit more info here: elleng Dec 2012 #6

That is bad practice by the court, aiming towards perfidious law. The traditional notion has been struggle4progress Dec 2012 #7

In a way, Congress has no de-facto standing to bring any case PSPS Dec 2012 #10