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Indeed, but not the problem. The public admission by the Chief administrator and head of the Judicial Branch that the court is unmoored from the constitution is the final straw. The difference between us thinking on occasion our government doesn't give two ****s what we think and the government announcing the fact that they don't publically. The cat is well out of the bag, our system is not what it purports to be, the constitution no longer matters. The fantasy that it did has been shattered.
Has nothing to do with this decision. This decision, taking down same sex marriage bans, is absolutely abiding by the Constitution, in a way that puts individual rights above states' rights. It is that simple. Individuals should have more rights than the states, particularly when the state cannot show any state interest furthered at all by restricting who can get married by their sex, when we treat spouses the same in pretty much all our laws pertaining to spouses regardless of their sex.