Obergefell<\/em> was announced by SCOTUS this morning.<\/p>\n 5-4 in favor of same-sex marriage rights.<\/a> Fourteenth Amendment requires a state to both issues SSM licenses and to recognize licenses issued by other states. Opinion by Kennedy. Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, and Alito all dissent, mostly joining one anothers’ dissents.<\/p>\n My office scheduled a 9:30 new client intake for me this morning. Didn’t they know this was going to happen?<\/p>\n I’ll start digesting and breaking down an analysis of the case after my intake is done.<\/p>\n Meanwhile — congratulations, United States of America! Today is a great, great day!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Obergefell was announced by SCOTUS this morning. 5-4 in favor of same-sex marriage rights. Fourteenth Amendment requires a state to both issues SSM licenses and to recognize licenses issued by other states. Opinion by...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":227,"featured_media":301603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[]},"categories":[11160,7556,11332],"tags":[95,1007],"class_list":["post-87399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","category-not-a-potted-plant-2","category-linkage","tag-same-sex-marriage","tag-scotus"],"yoast_head":"\n<\/a>Burt Likko is the pseudonym of an attorney in Southern California and the managing editor of Ordinary Times<\/em>. His interests include Constitutional law with a special interest in law relating to the concept of separation of church and state, cooking, good wine, and bad science fiction movies. Follow his sporadic Tweets at @burtlikko<\/a>, and his Flipboard at Burt Likko<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"