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Finally got around to looking at the Supreme Courts ruling on Proposition 8. While the DOMA ruling was fine, the Prop 8 ruling established a terrible precedent, ruling that citizens who pass an initiative do not have the legal standing to defend that law when elected officials refuse to do their job & defend the duly enacted law in court. This amounts to a pocket veto which politicians will abuse in the future, & not just on marriage. (Hat tip: Thomas Peters) Why bother voting if the laws are going to be ignored by the politicians & bureaucrats anyway? This type of disenfranchisement is very dangerous for a representative republic that counts on a democratic vote!
Posted on: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 02:45:46 +0000

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