Federal Judge gets it right

Posted by $ blarman 10 years, 10 months ago to Legislation
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Regardless of where you stand on the issue, this judge was the first one to get it right: the definition of marriage is for the State to decide - not a Federal Judge.

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  • Posted by $ blarman 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You will have to explain then where in the enumerated powers is present the right of the Federal Government to define marriage. By my reading the 10th Amendment very clearly states that any powers not SPECIFICALLY ceded to the Federal Government are retained by the States. It was this very language that Justice Kennedy used to strike down the Federal Defense of Marriage Act by declaring that the Federal Government had no jurisdiction to determine the definition in the first place.
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    Posted by eilinel 10 years, 10 months ago
    Sorry, but no. This was the argument the South used for miscegenation laws.
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