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Some Republican lawmakers increase calls against gay marriage SCOTUS ruling
Conservative legislators are increasingly speaking out against the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on same-sex marriage equality.
Idaho legislators began the trend in January when the state House and Senate passed a resolution calling on the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision -- which the court cannot do unless presented with a case on the issue. Some Republican lawmakers in at least four other states like Michigan, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota contain followed suit with calls to the Supreme Court.
In North Dakota, the resolution passed the mention House with a vote of and is headed to the Senate. In South Dakota, the state’s House Judiciary Committee sent the proposal on the 41st Legislative Day –deferring the bill to the final day of a legislative session, when it will no longer be considered, and effectively killing the bill.
In Montana and Michigan, the bills have yet to face legislative scrutiny.
Resolutions have no legal rule and are not binding law, but instead allow legislati
The Economic Impact of Marriage Equality 10 Years After Obergefell
Sales Tax Revenue
States and localities that impose sales taxes directly benefit from wedding spending. The national average state and local sales tax rate from June through June increased from % to %.To estimate sales tax revenue related to wedding spending since Obergefell, we calculated a national annual average combined state and local tax rate for each year between and , weighted by the proportion of the national increase in the number of married same-sex couples that occurred in each state between to For these years, we could directly rely on the ACS’ state-level estimates for the raise in married same-sex then applied this annual national weighted tax rate to the combined spending by same-sex couples and their guests for each year. The annual sales tax revenue amounts were adjusted to dollarsand added together to estimate sales tax revenue related to wedding spending over the 10 years.
Based on these calculations, we estimate that weddings of same-sex couples verb generated $ million in mention and loc
Obergefell v. Hodges ()
Excerpt: Majority View, Justice Anthony Kennedy
The identification and protection of fundamental rights is an enduring part of the judicial duty to interpret the Constitution. That responsibility, however, “has not been reduced to any formula.” Rather, it requires courts to exercise reasoned judgment in identifying interests of the person so fundamental that the Declare must accord them its respect. . . . That process is guided by many of the same considerations relevant to analysis of other constitutional provisions that set forth broad principles rather than specific requirements. History and tradition guide and discipline this inquiry but do not set its outer boundaries. That method respects our history and learns from it without allowing the past alone to command the present.
The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own times. The generations that wrote and ratified the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment did not presume to know the extent of autonomy in all of its dimensions, and so they entrusted to future generations a
Obergefell v. Hodges
Overview
Obergefell v. Hodges is a landmark case in which on June 26, , the Supreme Court of the United States held, in decision, that state bans on same-sex marriage and on recognizing same sex marriages duly performed in other jurisdictions are unconstitutional under the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Writing for the majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy asserted that the right to marry is a fundamental right “inherent in the liberty of the person” and is therefore protected by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibits the states from depriving any person of “life, liberty or property without the due process of law.” The marriage right is also guaranteed by the equal protection clause, by virtue of the close connection between liberty and equality. In this decision Justice Kennedy also declared that “the reason marriage is fundamental…apply with equal force to same-sex couples”, so they may “exercise the fundamental right to marry.” The majority decision wa