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
SF News Why Prop 8 Probably Shouldn't Get To The Supreme Court A very concise and cogent "Sidebar" article in the NYT today does an excellent job of explaining the arguments that many gay rights advocates have against taking the Prop 8 challenge as far
SF News Judges Inclined to Allow Prop 8 Appeal to Move Forward Today was another big day in court for the backers of Prop 8, who remain unhappy that federal judge Vaughn Walker did not agree with their view that homosexual marriage constitutes a horrible,
SF News Supreme Court Denies California's Violent Video Game Ban [Updated: Yee Responds] California's proposed law to ban the sale of violent video games to minors was shot down when the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional on a 7-2 vote this morning. Justice Scalia blew up
SF News Supreme Court Orders California to Release 30,000+ Prisoners; Scalia Freaks Out The Supreme Court today issued what amounts to an injunction against the State of California and its prisons, ordering the state to release 30,000 prisoners from the overcrowded system. The 5-4 majority
SF News Meanwhile, In Berkeley: Justice Sonia Sotomayor Tours Around, Eats at Chez Panisse Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor paid a visit to the Bay Area yesterday and today, and apparently never left Berkeley. She seems to have been here to judge a mock court competition at
SF News Scalia Comes to S.F., Says the Constitution Doesn't Protect Women Or Gays Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia hopped over to San Francisco on Friday to speak at UC Hastings College of Law, and during his talk, among other things, he mentioned that the Constitution does
SF News Elena Kagan Confirmed as 112th Supreme Court Justice Our AP mobile alert just informed us that Elena Kagan's Senate confirmation is official, with a vote of 63-37. No one thought it wouldn't go through, but anyway, there you have it. This
SF News Ruth Bader Ginsburg Wants to Outlast Scalia Speaking of the Supreme Court (where the Prop 8 case is likely to end up), Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg today puts to rest any rumors that she has any retirement plans during Obama's
SF News Supreme Court Rules Against Gun Ban Speaking of gun violence, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 today against the 30-year-old ban against handguns in Chicago, with the liberal justices all voting in the minority. Writing for the majority, Justice Alito
SF News Sotomayor Gets Confirmation, 68-31 Judge Sonia Sotomayor will be sworn in as the Supreme Court's 111th justice and first-ever Hispanic judge and third xx-chromosome carrier. With a Senate vote of 68-31, Sotomayor was also the first nominee
SF News What People Are Saying About the Prop 8 Ruling What are notables saying about the California State Supreme Court upholding prop. 8? Let's find out. Assemblymember Tom Ammiano (D, San Francisco): Today's Supreme Court opinion upholding Prop. 8 is a stark reminder
SF News Prop 8 Decision on Tuesday After much speculation this week, the California State Supreme Court will announce its official decision on Prop 8, the gay marriage ban, on Tuesday, May 26 Here's what will go down the day
SF News Prop 8's Forced-Divorces Will Break Our Hearts "Fidelity": Don't Divorce... from Courage Campaign on Vimeo. We dare you to watch the Courage Campaign's Fidelity video and not get all weepy. We were able to keep it together until it got
SF News Prop 8 Backers Admit That They Don't Really Believe Their Own Arguments Oh this Prop 8 stuff just gets hairier and hairier. We were thumbing through some articles about the people who backed Prop 8; that includes groups like the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty,
SF News Breaking News: Pope Still Against Queers Getting Married While his Holiness is more or less meh when it comes to non-consensual sex between a man and a boy, same-sex marriage just ain't cool in his book. So stop, says Pope Benedict.
SF News Dennis Herrera Loves Him Some Gay Marriage, But What About You? Heads have been exploding throughout California ever since this morning's delightful news about same-sex marriage was announced. City Attorney Dennis Herrera, in particular, is beaming--at least according to a press released sent out
SF News Court Strikes Down Gay Marriage Ban: California Supreme Court Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage According to ABC 7--who just mercifully brought The View to a screeching halt to inform viewers--the California State Supreme Court struck down the gay marriage ban. So: same-sex marriage is now legal, at
SF News SF Handgun Bill Killed By State Supreme Court Yesterday, the state supreme court flicked away San Francisco's feeble attempt to bad handguns. Or, in the words of CBS 5, the court "unanimously rejected the city's appeal of a lower-court ruling that
SF News In His Own Words: Gavin Newsom On Same-Sex Marriage Separate Is Not Equal by Gavin Newsom Four years ago, when Del Martin, Phyllis Lyon and more than 4,000 other couples said "I Do" this country took an irrevocable step toward securing
