The Spencer Hamilton Blog

·       Chief Justice Roberts asked whether expanding marriage to include gay couples would lead to marriage’s redefinition We’ve already redefined marriage: Did Ginsburg’s Dad get a dowry for her? Did Elena Kagan get raped by her husband and have to marry her? Was Sotomayor a virgin on her wedding day? Better yet, why not stone Calista Gingrich now? Can Ginny Thomas be sued under her own name? Can Alito’s wife own property in her own name? These already show that we’ve redefined marriage today as a union of equals rather than societally defined roles that are dictated to us. The only definition of marriage is between the two people in it ·          Justice Kennedy expressed concern about whether it was prudent for the Supreme Court to step in and change the definition of an institution that was as old, to use his language as “millennia.” In short, he asked whether it was is imprudent and unwise to sugg...

Some news of the Week The GOP budget plan that was voted on by the House a few months ago has come to an abrupt, screeching halt as lawmakers are forced to recognize that it simply will not work. The Ryan budget was passed in the House along party lines last March — and almost didn’t pass at all, as 10 Republican representatives voted with the 197 Democrats against it, making the final vote tally 221-207. Hal Rogers, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, even went so far as to state, “I believe that the House has made its choice: sequestration – and its' unrealistic and ill-conceived discretionary cuts – must be brought to an end.” But the  problem with Ryan’s budget  is that it works in abstractions, and is never binding. And Republicans learned that, for the sake of saving face while going back to their districts, the heavy cuts projected in the Ryan budget just weren’t workable.” He goes on to report, “Republicans passed the unspecific outlines of the...