SF News Oakland Pot Advocates Take Case to Supreme Court Americans for Safe Access (ASA), the medical marijuana advocacy group based in Oakland, has filed an appeal with the Supreme Court to get pot reclassified as a non-dangerous drug. The group previously brought
SF News State Supreme Court Says Gay Marriages Can Proceed The California State Supreme Court unanimously ruled today that same-sex marriages can continue despite an emergency request from Prop 8 supporters to stop them. "Backers of Proposition 8 had turned to the state's
SF News Photos: Scenes From San Francisco As Prop 8 Falls Wednesday morning at City Hall, a crowd of same sex marriage supporters, partners, parents, families and San Francisco dignitaries gathered to mark the Supreme Court's decision to declare DOMA unconstitutional and the return
SF News Prop 8 And DOMA Decisions To Come Down Wednesday; Castro, City Hall Events Planned We thought it might be Thursday, but SCOTUS is in fact planning to close up shop a day early for their summer recess, and the final big decisions of the term are to
SF News Is John Roberts Sweating The End Of SCOTUS Term? Next week is going to bring decisions in the four "marquee" cases (and seven others) left to be announced by the Supreme Court, and from the sounds of it, they may still be
SF News Scalia Hate Ramps Up On The Web After Two Very Gay Days At The SCOTUS We should all know by now that Justice Antonin Scalia is a stubborn old man who will never stop insisting that his only job is read the exact words of the Constitution and
SF News Video: What It Looked Like Exiting the Supreme Court Today Former SFister Matt Baume was in DC and got to breeze through today's Supreme Court hearings on the DOMA case, a.k.a. United States v. Windsor. He took some cell phone video
SF News Supreme Court '80% Likely' To Strike Down Defense Of Marriage Act Round two of the Supreme Court's discussion of same-sex marriage this week finds the highest court in the land debating the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, one of the more questionable
SF News Supreme Court Likely To Dismiss Prop 8 Case, Allow Same-Sex Marriages In California In Washington, D.C. this morning, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments from opponents and defenders of California's same-sex marriage ban. The purpose of this morning's hearing was to simply to decide whether
SF News Photos: Scenes From Outside The Supreme Court During Prop 8 Oral Arguments In Washington DC this morning, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Proposition 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage. The signs and protests from both sides demonstrating outside the courthouse this morning were
SF News Chief Justice John Roberts' Lesbian Cousin To Attend SCOTUS Hearings On Gay Marriage Chief Justice John Roberts has an openly lesbian cousin from San Francisco, 48-year-old Jean Podrasky, and she's in D.C. this week to sit in on the Supreme Court hearings on the Prop
SF News Bill Clinton Finally Admits DOMA Should Be Overturned Former President Bill Clinton has finally come out publicly against the Defense of Marriage Act, which he signed into law in 1996. As he puts it in a Washington Post editorial today, "it
SF News Obama Takes Strong Stand for Gay Marriage, Files Amicus Brief in Prop 8 Case President Obama and his administration today filed a pretty historic amicus brief outlining the ways in which California's Prop 8 violates the Constitution and equal protection. As the Sac Bee notes, "The declaration
SF News It's About Time: Prominent Republicans Change Tune On Gay Marriage Dozens of prominent Republicans, 75 and counting as of last night, have signed an amicus brief being filed with the Supreme Court in support of gay marriage, and the overturning of California's Proposition
SF News Boy Scouts Possibly Doing An About-Face On Gay Ban In a surprising turn of events, the Boy Scouts of America is apparently close to reversing its stance on allowing gay scouts and scout leaders, just six months after the organization reaffirmed its
SF News Supreme Court Sets Dates for Prop 8 and DOMA Hearings As we learned last month, somewhat anxiously, the Supreme Court will be hearing and likely issuing rulings on the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act in their current
SF News Supreme Court Agrees to (Maybe) Rule on Prop 8 Case, One DOMA Case [Updated] In their conference today, the Supreme Court has agreed to review the legality of California's Proposition 8, both its merits and whether or not the proponents had standing to appeal the federal court
SF News Supreme Court Says Nothing Yet With Regard to Gay Marriage Cases Once again, we're left waiting to hear if and how the Supreme Court is going to address the various legal challenges to gay marriage laws around the country. At their meeting today, though
SF News Prop 8, DOMA Cases Go Before Supreme Court On Friday In the ongoing legal battle between people who just want to marry each other and people who have an antiquated definition of marriage, the Supreme Court is expected to decide this week whether
SF News Supreme Court Decision on Whether to Rule on Prop 8 Due Next Month So, if the Supreme Court decides, as we hope they will, that ruling on the California state-constitutionality of Prop 8 is not in their purview, then that would be that. The statewide ban
SF News Justice Scalia Says Bans On Abortion, Sodomy Are 'Absolutely Easy' At a speaking engagement at Washington’s American Enterprise Institute this week, Justice Antonin Scalia was just being himself as he made several off-hand remarks about how easy it would be, constitutionally, to
SF News Justice Ginsburg Believes DOMA Will Go Before Supreme Court In The Next Year Speaking to a law school conference at the University of Colorado in Boulder yesterday, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg predicted the Defense of Marriage Act will land in front of the U.S. Supreme
SF News Nancy Pelosi Tweets Reactions to Health Care Law, Tells Kennedy Widow 'Now, Teddy Can Rest' Chief Justice John Roberts showed that he's his own man today, and our Bay Area Congresswoman and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is already coming out swinging on Twitter, calling today's Supreme Court
SF News State's Gay Marriage Ban Likely To Go To U.S. Supreme Court The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, who ruled Proposition 8 unconstitutional earlier this year, issued a brief today stating the court would not be revisiting the earlier ruling on the same-sex marriage ban.
SF News Supreme Court Seeming Likely To Kill Entire Health Care Plan Is the Supreme Court about to axe the entire health care initiative that dominated headlines in late 2009, caused many a Congressperson to lose their seat, and could have potentially saved millions of
