{"id":55,"date":"2012-02-08T15:30:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T20:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/?p=55"},"modified":"2012-02-08T13:22:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T18:22:34","slug":"two-harvard-law-profs-take-on-prop-8-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/two-harvard-law-profs-take-on-prop-8-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Harvard Law profs’ take on Prop. 8 ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"

The striking down of California\u2019s Proposition 8 voter initiative banning same-sex couples from marrying sets up what may be a quick appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. \u2026 Two Harvard University law professors said that the Supreme Court will probably be closely divided on the issue. \u2026<\/span>
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\n\u2026 Professor\u00a0<\/span>Charles Fried<\/strong>\u00a0predicted the Supreme Court would find gays have a constitutional right to marry. \u201cI think it\u2019s hard to avoid,\u201d . . . said Fried, who served as U.S. Solicitor General under Republican President Ronald Reagan.<\/span>
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\nThe fulcrum of that nine-judge court is likely to be Justice Anthony Kennedy \u2026 said professor\u00a0<\/span>Mark Tushnet<\/strong>\u00a0\u2026 \u201cWhatever he thinks, that\u2019s what the law is going to be,\u201d Tushnet said in a phone interview. \u201cHe has been a reasonably strong proponent of gay rights on the court. Whether this is a bridge too far or a bridge too soon, I don\u2019t think anybody can tell.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

California\u2019s Gay Marriage Ban Case May Be Quickly Headed to Supreme Court – Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The striking down of California\u2019s Proposition 8 voter initiative banning same-sex couples from marrying sets up what may be a quick appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. \u2026 Two Harvard University law professors said that the Supreme Court will probably be closely divided on the issue. \u2026 \u00a0 \u2026 Professor\u00a0Charles Fried\u00a0predicted the Supreme Court would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61279],"tags":[450,61296,61281,61295],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-court-opinions","tag-california","tag-charles-fried","tag-federal","tag-mark-tushnet","p1","y2012","m02","d08","h11"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}