The Best of SCOTUS: Transcript pages 23-25 on March 26, 2013
- MR. COOPER: Yes, Your Honor. The concern is that redefining marriage as a genderless institution will sever its abiding connection to its historic traditional procreative purposes, and it will refocus, refocus the purpose of marriage and the definition of marriage away from the raising of children and to the emotional needs and desires of adults, of adult couples. Suppose, in turn -
- JUSTICE KAGAN: Well, suppose a State said, Mr. Cooper, suppose a State said that, Because we think that the focus of marriage really should be on procreation, we are not going to give marriage licenses anymore to any couple where both people are over the age of 55. Would that be constitutional?
- MR. COOPER: No, Your Honor, it would not be constitutional.
- JUSTICE KAGAN: Because that's the same State interest, I would think, you know. If you are over the age of 55, you don't help us serve the Government's interest in regulating procreation through marriage. So why is that different?
- MR. COOPER: Your Honor, even with respect to couples over the age of 55, it is very rare that both couples -- both parties to the couple are infertile, and the traditional -
- (Laughter.)
- JUSTICE KAGAN: No, really, because if the couple -- I can just assure you, if both the woman and the man are over the age of 55, there are not a lot of children coming out of that marriage.
- (Laughter.)
- MR. COOPER: Your Honor, society's - society's interest in responsible procreation isn't just with respect to the procreative capacities of the couple itself. The marital norm, which imposes the obligations of fidelity and monogamy, Your Honor, advances the interests in responsible procreation by making it more likely that neither party, including the fertile party to that -
- JUSTICE KAGAN: Actually, I'm not even -
- JUSTICE SCALIA: I suppose we could have a questionnaire at the marriage desk when people come in to get the marriage -- you know, Are you fertile or are you not fertile?
- (Laughter.)
- JUSTICE SCALIA: I suspect this Court would hold that to be an unconstitutional invasion of privacy, don't you think?
- JUSTICE KAGAN: Well, I just asked about age. I didn't ask about anything else. That's not - we ask about people's age all the time.
- MR. COOPER: Your Honor, and even asking about age, you would have to ask if both parties are infertile. Again -
- JUSTICE SCALIA: Strom Thurmond was -- was not the chairman of the Senate committee when Justice Kagan was confirmed.
- (Laughter.)
Tyrannical valentines day cards - Imgur
I don’t think Marx was tyrannical (?) and I don’t think Trotsky was either (in fact, I don’t think either of them were ever leaders of any nation), but hey. It goes with the whole communist/socialist theme.
People are telling bad apocalypse jokes like there is no tomorrow.
It was on a friend’s status. I laughed.
When I go to school:
When someone insults me:
When I see someone I hate:
When someone tries talking to me:
When someone is annoying me:
When someone tells me their problems:
But then when school is over:
#CLEARLY REBLOGGING FOR RDJ’S FACE
^ DEAD.
#DEAD
OMG I WAS THINKING ABOUT THIS TODAY
I will never not reblog this when I see it.
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-Sir, we’ve found this and we needed you to name it.
-Pineapple.
-But we figured we might as well just call it “Ananas” since the majority of the world refers to it as-
-Pineapple.
-But sir-
-Pine. Apple.
CRYING I HAVE TO REBLOG IM SORRY OMFG
Hmmm…maybe I should start referring to them as “Ananas.”
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