Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Awaiting the Supreme Court's gay marriage decisions



Live coverage from SCOTUSblog

By SCOTUSblog | Yahoo! News – 6 hrs ago



Reuters/REUTERS - Reporters wait to hear which rulings are handed down at the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, June 13, 2013. The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday issued a mixed ruling in a case concerning …more


The Supreme Court is expected to hand down several rulings Tuesday, two of which have the potential to drastically expand the rights of gays and lesbians in the country.

As the term draws to a close at the end of this week, the nine justices still have not released decisions in two highly anticipatedgay marriage cases—Perry v. Hollingsworth and Windsor v. United States—as well as one key case involving race, Shelby County v. Holder.

At 9:00 a.m., the experts at SCOTUSblog—SCOTUS stands for Supreme Court of the United States—will begin analyzing what the Court might do in the liveblog below, and when a decision is handed down, this liveblog will likely be the first place to break the news.

In the Perry case, the court is expected decide whether California voters discriminated against gay people when they voted to ban same-sex marriage. In Windsor, the court is weighing whether the federal Defense of Marriage Act—which limits all federal marriage benefits to opposite sex couples--violates the constitutional rights of same-sex couples.

In Shelby, the justices could significantly scale back the federal government's right to supervise states with a history of voting discrimination against minorities.

The Court will begin issuing opinions at 10 a.m. ET.


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