U.S. Supreme Court
Sep. 14, 2013
Common thread in US high court's end-of-term decisions
The legal thread of state and federal sovereignty wove through four cases at the end of the high court's 2012-2013 term.
Lawrence Waddington
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Email: waddington1@aol.com
Lawrence is a retired Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge and former assistant attorney general for the state of California. He is author of "Disorder in the Court" at Amazon.com. He also edits the 9th Circuit blog, "The 9th Circuit Watch."
The U.S. Supreme Court concluded its 2012-2013 term by writing four distinct but related decisions - the legal thread of state and federal sovereignty wove through all the cases. California lost the ability of its electorate to prevent same-sex marriage due to Article III standing issues impairing the state's ability to defend the initiative. Hollingsworth v. Perry, 133 S.Ct. 2652 (2013). Texas obliquely lost authority to implement racial preferences in its University of Texas admis...
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