10 years after the Supreme Court extended marriage rights to all same-sex couples, it will consider whether to take a case asking it to overturn the decision.
My point isn’t really that the law doesn’t matter (which is also true but that’s beyond the scope of this conversation). My point is “democrats didn’t codify it” seems to me a true statement if the law still can be repealed. If they wanted they could have organized a freaking show trial or something if the mechanism needs to be through a lawsuit, the point is that they didn’t do any of that, they just wrote some stuff in a book that can be repealed at a moment’s notice. Am I wrong here and just being dumb and not understanding something?
Codify to statesian means to put a law on the books. Abortion was legal because of a court ruling not a law. That’s why the supreme court could do what they did.
As far as this law goes it can’t just be revoked. Either the us supreme court would need to strike it down as unconstitutional (this would likely be a lengthy court battle), or Congress needs a “supermajority” to pass a new law that invalidates the previous gay marriage law. This law can’t just be “revoked” from my understanding.
Now there is a whole lot of bs the govt can pull to still get its way but technically it will still have to follow this law.
You’re right that it’s not impervious, but it’s at least a roadblock versus there being nothing in the way. You know what I mean?
No worries, the United States legal system and the way we create laws and try to enforce them is incredibly archaic, and even most people here don’t understand how it works.
My point isn’t really that the law doesn’t matter (which is also true but that’s beyond the scope of this conversation). My point is “democrats didn’t codify it” seems to me a true statement if the law still can be repealed. If they wanted they could have organized a freaking show trial or something if the mechanism needs to be through a lawsuit, the point is that they didn’t do any of that, they just wrote some stuff in a book that can be repealed at a moment’s notice. Am I wrong here and just being dumb and not understanding something?
Codify to statesian means to put a law on the books. Abortion was legal because of a court ruling not a law. That’s why the supreme court could do what they did.
As far as this law goes it can’t just be revoked. Either the us supreme court would need to strike it down as unconstitutional (this would likely be a lengthy court battle), or Congress needs a “supermajority” to pass a new law that invalidates the previous gay marriage law. This law can’t just be “revoked” from my understanding.
Now there is a whole lot of bs the govt can pull to still get its way but technically it will still have to follow this law.
You’re right that it’s not impervious, but it’s at least a roadblock versus there being nothing in the way. You know what I mean?
Got it. I didn’t quite understand it at the beginning. Thanks a lot for the explanation
No worries, the United States legal system and the way we create laws and try to enforce them is incredibly archaic, and even most people here don’t understand how it works.