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U.S. justice temporarily blocks gay marriage in Kansas

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Very Interesting.....and a very liberal justice at that.



U.S. justice temporarily blocks gay marriage in Kansas



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Supreme justice on Monday temporarily blocked gay marriage in Kansas a day before it was due to go into effect.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued an order saying that the court wanted gay marriage advocates to respond to the state’s application seeking to put gay marriage on hold. U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Crabtree struck down the state’s gay marriage ban last week, ruling that it would go into effect on Tuesday at 6 p.m. Eastern Time (2300 GMT) if no other court intervened.
 
I'm confused. Why did she do this?

Kansas wants to appeal. They applied to the appeals court for a stay and where denied, so they are bumping that application to SCOTUS. Sotomayor granted the stay to give Kansas time to put their application together and get it resolved. It is pretty much the logical, sensible move.
 
Kansas wants to appeal. They applied to the appeals court for a stay and where denied, so they are bumping that application to SCOTUS. Sotomayor granted the stay to give Kansas time to put their application together and get it resolved. It is pretty much the logical, sensible move.

Gracias for the explanation. Now it makes sense. I didn't realize someone was looking to appeal (although I should have figured as much).
 
Gracias for the explanation. Now it makes sense. I didn't realize someone was looking to appeal (although I should have figured as much).

The interesting interim question is whether SCOTUS in whole will grant the full stay request Kansas is requesting. I kinda suspect they might since with the recent Michigan case, there is now reason for SCOTUS to actually take up an appeal of SSM and rule on SSM bans once and for all. SInce they are likely to do that, it might make sense to grant full stays until they have a chance to rule, to avoid situations where it was illegal, then legal and people got married, then illegal again potentially.
 
The interesting interim question is whether SCOTUS in whole will grant the full stay request Kansas is requesting. I kinda suspect they might since with the recent Michigan case, there is now reason for SCOTUS to actually take up an appeal of SSM and rule on SSM bans once and for all. SInce they are likely to do that, it might make sense to grant full stays until they have a chance to rule, to avoid situations where it was illegal, then legal and people got married, then illegal again potentially.

Agreed. And it mesmerizes me that the SCOTUS has not taken up this issue once and for all, and make an across the board ruling.
 
Very Interesting.....and a very liberal justice at that.



U.S. justice temporarily blocks gay marriage in Kansas



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Supreme justice on Monday temporarily blocked gay marriage in Kansas a day before it was due to go into effect.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued an order saying that the court wanted gay marriage advocates to respond to the state’s application seeking to put gay marriage on hold. U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Crabtree struck down the state’s gay marriage ban last week, ruling that it would go into effect on Tuesday at 6 p.m. Eastern Time (2300 GMT) if no other court intervened.


Don't get your hopes up old man.....this battle is over. This is just a common SCOTUS procedural move. If you followed the Court at all you would have realized that.
 
Very Interesting.....and a very liberal justice at that.



U.S. justice temporarily blocks gay marriage in Kansas




WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Supreme justice on Monday temporarily blocked gay marriage in Kansas a day before it was due to go into effect.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued an order saying that the court wanted gay marriage advocates to respond to the state’s application seeking to put gay marriage on hold. U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Crabtree struck down the state’s gay marriage ban last week, ruling that it would go into effect on Tuesday at 6 p.m. Eastern Time (2300 GMT) if no other court intervened.

DOH!
http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/supreme-court-ends-stay-on-kansas-same-sex-marriage-order

Sorry NP.

Chalk another win up for the good guys....long llive freedom and equality in this great country!

BTW--it looks like bigotry only has 2 of the justices on their side now.
 
Very Interesting.....and a very liberal justice at that.



U.S. justice temporarily blocks gay marriage in Kansas



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Supreme justice on Monday temporarily blocked gay marriage in Kansas a day before it was due to go into effect.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued an order saying that the court wanted gay marriage advocates to respond to the state’s application seeking to put gay marriage on hold. U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Crabtree struck down the state’s gay marriage ban last week, ruling that it would go into effect on Tuesday at 6 p.m. Eastern Time (2300 GMT) if no other court intervened.

I'm confused. Why did she do this?

Standard procedure to put a stay pending possible appeal. They've granted the stays essentially every time they were asked for.

Edit: Until the SCOTUS rejection of hearing the case we had recently, anyway.
 
Standard procedure to put a stay pending possible appeal. They've granted the stays essentially every time they were asked for.

The temporary stay was just struck down by the entire Supreme Court (save two justices, Scalia and Thomas)
 
The temporary stay was just struck down by the entire Supreme Court (save two justices, Scalia and Thomas)

Makes sense, although there was some possibility that a stay would have been granted now that it looks like SCOTUS will have to take the case after all, as Redress pointed out.

On the other hand, why bother because this is basically already decided.
 
Makes sense, although there was some possibility that a stay would have been granted now that it looks like SCOTUS will have to take the case after all, as Redress pointed out.

On the other hand, why bother because this is basically already decided.

Courts do not, routinely, issue stays of lower court rulings unless a) the upper court will take up the appeal and b) there is a strong likelihood that the appeal will be granted.

To me, the initial move was to give opportunity to the entire court to have a say and the subsequent denial of the stay says to me that the appeal will likely be summarily denied and not heard by the Supreme Court. But that's just an educated guess.
 
Very Interesting.....and a very liberal justice at that.



U.S. justice temporarily blocks gay marriage in Kansas



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Supreme justice on Monday temporarily blocked gay marriage in Kansas a day before it was due to go into effect.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued an order saying that the court wanted gay marriage advocates to respond to the state’s application seeking to put gay marriage on hold. U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Crabtree struck down the state’s gay marriage ban last week, ruling that it would go into effect on Tuesday at 6 p.m. Eastern Time (2300 GMT) if no other court intervened.

Well its now allowed to proceed
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/13/u...ets-gay-marriages-proceed-in-kansas.html?_r=0
 
This thread totally confused me more than usual. I was certain that the Court allowed Kansas to go forward with SSM.
 
This thread totally confused me more than usual. I was certain that the Court allowed Kansas to go forward with SSM.

It did. There was just a very brief procedural stay, because there was a theoretical possibility that SCOTUS might issue a full stay pending appeal. SCOTUS almost immediately replied with "NOPE," so things moved forward on schedule.
 
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