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Old 02-25-2004, 05:26 PM   #2253
Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
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Disappointing disconnect

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch

I'm sure the state legislatures will all be grateful to be put through their paces on ratifying a FUCKING AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION to be saved the trouble of limiting a state law that might be construed by a court as requiring civil unions, or the trouble of later overturning such a statute if it is every successfully so used by an "activist judge."
Can't the same be said for state constitutions, recognizing that it can be harder to amend some state constitutions than state laws? We're already in bizarro-federalism-supremacy world here. Why not make sure those walls are high and tight?
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