Posted by
Playful Walrus on Thursday, February 03, 2011 4:28:25 PM
New Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court, Tani Cantil-Sakauye,
who replaced retired Chief Justice Ronald M. George, met with reporters
to talk about many different things. The powers at the
Los Angeles Times,
being
the publication that appeals to the general population rather
than a tiny behavioral minority, chose the headline "New chief justice
says California Supreme Court will decide soon on entering Proposition
8 fray".
Maura
Dolan reports.
Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye said Wednesday that the California
Supreme Court may decide "as soon as next week" whether to weigh in on
the federal Proposition 8 appeal and expressed hope that a Southern
California Latino would be chosen to succeed departing Justice Carlos
R. Moreno.
I'm not sure what her racism means for the Prop 8 case. As you may
recall,
the
case was tossed back to California's Supreme Court by the
three judge panel hearing the case for the 9th Circuit federal appeals
court to deal with an issue of standing.
The new chief justice has declined to reveal her views about
[neutering] marriage. As an appeals court judge in Sacramento, she
performed a wedding for a same-sex couple "as a favor to someone else
who had a family emergency," she said. Same-sex marriage was legal for
six months in 2008. "I didn't have any qualms about it," she said.
Yeah, you know, I'm not going to reveal my views about fornication and
adultery, but I'll tell a bunch of reporters in the tank for
fornication and adultery that if a buddy of mine gets temporarily
incapacitated and requests I "take care" of his wife, I'll do that as a
favor for him without any qualms. After all, both of those things are
legal.
(Many of my statements above are sarcastic. You get to figure out which ones.)
"Michaelthepainter" at 4:38 AM February 3, 2011:
I think they should find an African-Arab mix, transgender, blind,
mentally challenged, gay, Green Party, Norteno gang member, hemerrhoid
suffering, bald, obese, recovering alcoholic from a remote, rural
Northeast California logging community as the next justice. If
he/she/it knows anything about law, that would be a plus, too.
"TomWarner" at 5:18 AM February 3, 2011:
How dare you, Mcihaelthepainter, leaving out the homeless, I am offended!
"jskdn2" at 10:33 AM February 3, 2011 made a good point:
Moreno was the only justice not to recognize that it's the
Constitution of California, not his personal preferences, that control
what justices can do. The other four judges who had voted to overturn
the original initiative banning gay marriage all accepted that.
If the State Supreme Court doesn't recognize that for the the
initiative process, which is designed to go over the heads of elected
politicians, to be meaningful, it can't have those same politicians
trump those initiatives by simply refusing to provide for their defense
against the inevitable lawsuits, then they will have effectively
rendered the initiative powers of the citizens of this state moot.
You can find everything you need to know about
Proposition
8, the
state
court trial, and the
federal
trial at The Opine
Editorials.
Also see my
Handy
Dandy Marriage Neutering Plea Repellant