What did the Supreme court do with Prop 8?

[diabeticman]

Sorry been busy all day no internet, phone or TV access

[cthulu2016]

1. The case never had standing. Original CA ruling reinstated. Prop 8 is gone.

[diabeticman]

2. So Gays/Lesbians can marry?

[cthulu2016]

3. In California

[diabeticman]

4. HELL YEAH!!! My wife will be so pleased. Her Best friend from college has been waiting

to marry his partner

[IggleDoer]

5. If the case never had proper standing, why did the Supreme Court accept it in the first place?

n/t

[cthulu2016]

6. Two reasons. 1) Lower courts had found it did have standing, and 2)

it only take 4 votes to take a case.

And the decision was 5-4, so 4 votes still thought it had standing.

[dairydog91]

7. The original District Court ruling is reinstated.

SCOTUS threw out the Perry case at both its own level and at the Circuit level. The majority held that the traditional marriage group which was bringing the appeal of the original District Court decision lacked standing. Since Federal Courts can only hear actual "cases and controversies", traditional rules of standing prevent a third party who only has an ideological interest in a case from jumping in. Since California didn't want to appeal, and the traditional marriage group couldn't appeal after today's decision, the law reverts to the District Court's decision. Gay marriage is Constitutional, but only in California.

[Warpy]

8. They couldn't find anything in the lower court's ruling against it

to pick at and unravel, so they punted it back to California, saying the people who appealed it to the Supreme Court had no legal standing to do so.

The lower court's ruling was nailed down tight. I'm surprised they chose to hear it, at all. It was ironclad.

It's about the best we could have expected from this corrupt and reactionary court.