Speech Rights Are Gay Rights
Roberts and Thomas may be on the wrong side of history, but their understanding of democracy and the freedoms it confers should not be dismissed as meaningless abstraction.
Roberts and Thomas may be on the wrong side of history, but their understanding of democracy and the freedoms it confers should not be dismissed as meaningless abstraction.
The next president will decide whether or not to unleash the floodgates of judicial progress.
“They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law,” Justice Kennedy wrote. “The Constitution grants them that right.”
Could the Supreme Court’s most infuriatingly unpredictable member hold the key to settling the debate on gay marriage?