Symposium: A landmark victory for civil rights
Erwin Chemerinsky is the Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law and the Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law.
Obergefell v. Hodges symposium
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Symposium: A fair and proper application of the Fourteenth Amendment
June 26, 2015 is a day to celebrate. (Indeed, we are going to have to make June 26 some sort of gay rights holiday now that Lawrence v. Texas, United States v. Windsor and Obergefell v. Hodges all came down on that day.)
Symposium: In defense of Justice Kennedy’s soaring language
Michael C. Dorf is the Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law at Cornell University. He blogs at dorfonlaw.org. In the nature of split decisions, the majority opinion makes an affirmative argument and the dissent criticizes that argument, with the majority responding, if at all, in footnotes and other asides.
Symposium: Sometimes it takes unelected Justices, not the political process, to give Americans the law they really want
Steve Sanders teaches constitutional law, constitutional litigation, and family law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. He was co-counsel on an amicus brief in support of the petitioners in Obergefell v. Hodges.
Symposium: Overruling Windsor
Kyle Duncan is a lawyer in private practice in Washington, D.C. He successfully defended Louisiana’s marriage laws in Robicheaux v. Caldwell, and filed an amicus brief on behalf of fifteen States in Obergefell v. Hodges. The views in this post are his alone.
Symposium: A tremendous defeat for “We the People” and our posterity
David R. Upham is an attorney and associate professor of politics at the University of Dallas. He blogs regularly about marriage at whygethitched.com. About five generations ago, our nation adopted the Fourteenth Amendment.
Symposium: The Constitution has everything to do with it
Judith E. Schaeffer is the Vice President of the Constitutional Accountability Center Whether by design or serendipity, today’s historic ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges came on the anniversaries of two other momentous gay rights decisions, Lawrence v. Texas and United States v. Windsor.
Symposium: “Oh, well, we know better.”
Christopher Green is an Associate Professor at Ole Miss Law. Near the beginning of the oral argument in Obergefell v. Hodges, Justice Anthony Kennedy caused many observers to think that the Court might allow states to keep traditional marriage definitions after all.
Symposium: Judicial activism on marriage causes harm: What does the future hold?
Ryan T. Anderson is the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation and the author of the forthcoming book Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom. His amicus brief was cited in Justice Clarence Thomas’s dissenting opinion in Obergefell.