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We've protested outside Mormon temples, Catholic cathedrals and City Halls across the land.

What's the next step?

Date: 2008-11-25 03:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daddytodd.livejournal.com
"I can't see how it won't be overturned."

Really? I can't really see how it COULD be overturned. It can't be declared unconstitutional; it's an amendment to the California constitution. It would kind of take a ruling of the US Supreme Court to declare it unconstitutional. And I don't really see the make-up of the SCOTUS moving far enough away from the Far Right to make a ruling like that for at least a decade.

Date: 2008-11-25 04:44 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] furr-a-bruin.livejournal.com
If they decide that the change is sufficiently sweeping as to require the more complex procedure for altering the California constitution, they can block Prop H8 on that basis - it's not really finding it "unconstitutional," but people have been calling it that.

Date: 2008-11-26 02:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daddytodd.livejournal.com
That's the only scenario under which the Cali Supremes could overturn it. I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know how likely that is. Is that the question they'll settle in March?

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