of what entitlement is on the table for same-sex couples as for opposite-sex couples. so the range of options that we have with those claims are, usually people frame it as 0 to 50. it s either no states or all 50 states. but there are actually three options in the middle. and i think that the court is most likely to do one of those threes. there are two ways to get to one state, a just california solution, we can talk about either of those. and there s an eight-state solution that says, there are currently eight states, will be nine when colorado does civil unions may 1st, but eight states that have everything but marriage. the argument there is, if you are giving all the rights and benefits and burdens of marriage to individuals but withholding only the word marriage, that s essentially a branding issue. it s a concern you ll tarnish the brand if you let gay people into the constitution. and that tarnishment claim is really is second class citizenship claim, so they could flip those
one is the freedom to marry claim, which is under the due process clause of the 14th amendment. the other is an equal protection claim, which says there has to be equal treatment, regardless of what entitlement is on the table for same-sex couples as for opposite-sex couples. so the range of options that we have with those claims are, usually people frame it as 0 to 50. it s either no states or all 50 states. but there are actually three options in the middle. and i think that the court is most likely to do one of those threes. there are two ways to get to one state, a just california solution, we can talk about either of those. and there s an eight-state solution that says, there are currently eight states, will be nine when colorado does civil unions may 1st, but eight states that have everything but marriage. the argument there is, if you are giving all the rights and benefits and burdens of marriage to individuals but withholding only the word marriage, that s essentially a brandin
table for same-sex couples as for opposite-sex couples. so the range of options that we have with those claims are, usually people frame it as 0 to 50. it s either no states or all 50 states. but there are actually three options in the middle. and i think that the court is most likely to do one of those threes. there are two ways to get to one state, a just california solution, we can talk about either of those. and there s an eight-state solution that says, there are currently eight states, will be nine when colorado does civil unions may 1st, but eight states that have everything but marriage. the argument there is, if you are giving all the rights and benefits and burdens of marriage to individuals but withholding only the word marriage, that s essentially a branding issue. it s a concern you ll tarnish the brand if you let gay people into the constitution. and that tarnishment claim is really is second class citizenship claim, so they could flip those and double the number of juris
as a good soldier. and msnbc suggested that the optics are very good for the democrats because any questions raise abouted her will be interpreted as racist and i think so that s wrong. or saw as racist. and maureen dowd, and dan, if they had to vote for susan rice and nothing would make a big chunk of the chatting class in the media in president obama s second term to be sort of light critics, some detachment and ironic distance and meanwhile the agenda goes forward and tarnishment will not stop her being the next secretary of state. if the press did their job there would be different questions. if they did, that s a huge if. . the former head of the ceo david petraeus, his belief that the attacks were carried out and planned as terrorism attacks, and then came his
as a good soldier. and msnbc suggested that the optics are very good for the democrats because any questions raise abouted her will be interpreted as racist and i think so that s wrong. or saw as racist. and maureen dowd, and dan, if they had to vote for susan rice and nothing would make a big chunk of the chatting class in the media in president obama s second term to be sort of light critics, some detachment and ironic distance and meanwhile the agenda goes forward and tarnishment will not stop her being the next secretary of state. if the press did their job there would be different questions. if they did, that s a huge if. . the former head of the ceo david petraeus, his belief that the attacks were carried out and planned as terrorism attacks, and then came his