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After passing on earlier requests for it to decide the main same-sex marriage issue, the Supreme Court announced today that it would finally hear that issue. Here is the list of orders from today's conference.
The Court consolidated 4 cases relating to the issue and granted cert in those cases, limiting their consideration of the issue to the following questions:
Granting cert for 4 cases and limiting the consideration to those questions tells me that the Court is ready to decide the main constitutional issue rather than settle these cases on narrower grounds or technical issues. I would expect a decision in these cases to come on the last day of this Supreme Court term, so late June or thereabouts.
The Court consolidated 4 cases relating to the issue and granted cert in those cases, limiting their consideration of the issue to the following questions:
1) Does the Fourteenth Amendment require a state to license a marriage between two people of the same sex? 2) Does the Fourteenth Amendment require a state to recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex when their marriage was lawfully licensed and performed out-of-state?
Granting cert for 4 cases and limiting the consideration to those questions tells me that the Court is ready to decide the main constitutional issue rather than settle these cases on narrower grounds or technical issues. I would expect a decision in these cases to come on the last day of this Supreme Court term, so late June or thereabouts.