One need not take sides in order to applaud J. Scalia's use of the phrase "legal[istic] argle-bargle" in the DOMA dissent.
— @scotusreporter
Marry who you love. It's that simple.
— @DemFromCT
SCOTUSBlog:
The Fate of Same-Sex Marriage in California after Perry
When will the injunction take effect?
A: When the court of appeals lifts the stay that it imposed on the district court’s judgment. The Supreme Court’s mandate to the court of appeals will not be issued for at least 25 days. As far as I know, however, the court of appeals does not have to wait for the Supreme Court’s mandate in order to lift its stay of the trial court’s injunction. And Attorney General Harris apparently has asked the court of appeals to lift the stay as soon as possible. Therefore the trial court’s injunction will presumably go into effect on Monday, July 22d at the latest . . . and perhaps earlier.
Daily News:
A jubilant [Edie] Windsor dropped the news that she's supporting Democratic frontrunner Chris Quinn when the two appeared together at a rally celebrating the big Supreme Court ruling that guts the Defense of Marriage Act.
As Quinn prepared to address the elated crowd outside the Village's famed Stonewall Inn, the octogeniarian Windsor jumped up.
"I was committed to not endorse anyone until there was a decision [on DOMA]," she said. "Christine Quinn!"
Chris Geidner:
Edie Windsor Talks About Her Victory: “It Just Feels Glorious”
“I had pretty much the same reaction as almost everyone in the room: We were all crying,” the marriage plaintiff tells BuzzFeed. Windsor and her lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, share their thoughts about a historic victory.
More politics and policy below the fold.
Joan Walsh (2004):
THURSDAY, FEB 26, 2004 03:59 PM EST
Winter of love
Cautious Democrats worry that San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's historic affirmation of gay marriage will help Bush win reelection. But as the right squabbles over the issue, his party may well thank him in November.
Lesson learned? Do the right thing.
Erica Grieder, whose tweets explained and got me through the Texas leg debacle, writes it up:
And Texas’s long-suffering Democrats should be excited, because for the first time in years they appear to have a realistic shot at winning a statewide executive office in 2014. Wendy Davis , the Democratic state senator from Fort Worth, vaulted to national attention yesterday over the course of a long filibuster that will go down in the state history books. She had been widely considered to be thinking about a run for governor before that, but her prospects were daunting: in a state the size of Texas, candidates generally need a lot of money and a lot of name recognition to win a top office. Davis, because of yesterday, suddenly has both–not to mention a lot to talk about on the trail. She is rapidly becoming the most powerful Democrat in the state since Governor Ann Richards, who was elected in 1990 and is the last woman or Democrat to hold that post.
But let’s begin at the beginning.
Ross Ramsey:
David Dewhurst’s dream ended like a fairy tale: The clock struck 12 and the lieutenant governor’s bid for conservative redemption came to pieces.
Tuesday might have been his worst political day ever, adding speed to the political tailspin that began a year ago when he was upset by fellow Republican Ted Cruz in the race for U.S. Senate.
On Tuesday, Dewhurst led the Republican Senate into a loss heard all over the country, waiting too long to finally break a Fort Worth Democrat’s filibuster on abortion legislation and then losing the opportunity for a final victory in a procedural quagmire attended by hundreds of noisy reproductive rights activists.
It made Wendy Davis a hero for her side, and Dewhurst a goat for his.
WaPo:
A group of conservative House Republicans blasted the decisions on same-sex marriage issued Wednesday by the Supreme Court as legally inconsistent and detrimental to the future of the nation’s children. One lawmaker pledged to soon file a constitutional amendment to reinstate the Defense of Marriage Act.
That's terrific for Republican rebranding efforts. Keep it up.
National Journal:
The Supreme Court ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act doesn’t close the door on the gay-marriage debate, but Republican leaders are saying that the issue is one for the states and not for Congress.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said in a statement that he’s “disappointed in the ruling,” but he added that “a robust national debate over marriage will continue in the public square, and it is my hope that states will define marriage as the union between one man and one woman.”
Likewise, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., said, “I’m disappointed in this decision, and the marriage debate will continue in the states.”
It’s no surprise that the Republican leadership is looking to the states. GOP leaders maintained a low profile on the case, even as Democrats criticized them for authorizing some $3 million to defend the law through the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group.
Public opinion has also been shifting in favor of gay marriage over the past decade. Even the Republican National Committee recommended that the GOP be more inclusive of gay voters.
The bigots will have little support in Congress. Too bad for them, though a focus on the states reinforces that the work isn't done.
Remember when the NSA story had anything at all to do with actual surveillance policies? Those were good times.
— @morningmoneyben
Erik Wemple:
That’s not to say, however, that [Bloomberg reporter] Stohr’s work on the story started this morning at 10:00 a.m. No, he began working on the story a month-and-a-half ago, he says. Much of the work consisted of thinking through all the intricate legal scenarios that the Supreme Court could possibly concoct in deciding the DOMA case and the Prop 8 case, which also made news today. The brainstorming process, says Stohr, ultimately yielded 18 story ledes and many more headlines — all of which were ready for publication this morning. “We had ledes written for what do we say if we had a DOMA ruling but not Prop 8,” says Stohr, who emphasizes that Asseo and Drummond were critical to the effort. “What do we say if we have Prop 8 but not DOMA? And what do we say when we have both of them?”