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slightlv

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4. I scanned over the article on Slate, and I disagree with their conclusions,

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Aug 13, 2025, 10:36 PM

Aug 13

based on what this court has already done. Here's the paragraph I picked out, tho there are pieces of others that I take exception to:

SCOTUS can take up Davis’ appeal only if four of the justices vote to hear it. And it’s difficult to envision four members of the current court agreeing to do so given the open-and-shut failure of Davis’ main argument. But even if they did, the court would still have no grounds to consider her shoehorned assault on Obergefell itself. Reevaluating that precedent is entirely unnecessary to resolve the real dispute. And as the appeals court pointed out, Davis’ lawyers actually forfeited their argument against Obergefell by declining to raise it in the district court. Their failure to preserve this issue gives SCOTUS one more reason to ignore it.

Davis doesn't think she should pay the $100,000 fine. That's her case, in a nutshell. She doesn't even call for a reversal of gay marriage. *However* this court has "shoehorned" side rulings using stupid cases just like this. They disregard the reason they took up the case, supposedly, and instead issue a ruling on a related aspect that no one wanted heard. Look at the way they took away women's bodily autonomy for a closely aligned example.

Slate thinks this court has too much on its plate to accomplish given the time, resources, political will, etc., to accomplish it. So they have to prioritize. And gay marriage is just not "up there" on their list. I beg to differ.

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