9th Circuit Court Jesters: Spirit of The Law, Will of the People?

It's physically located at San Francisco, California, and has earned an infamous reputation among learned scholars for rending decisions that baffle many of the USA's brightest legal minds, liberal and conservative, and may soon put the term "sore winners" into our vernacular.



California voters went to the polls and voted-down same-sex marriage, and the 9th Circuit has just intervened, putting a big hitch in the giddy-up of my view of "government of the People, by the People, and for the People."


That Circuit Court, in the city who has officially boycotted the State of Arizona law concerning illegal aliens, will hear arguments and sit in judgement of SB-1070.


First the California voters, and now the Arizona voters.


You vote, your measure passes or doesn't, and life goes on because you've earned the right to complain by exercising your say by way of your ballot.


In the notorious 9th, the will of the People, votes and elections, don't seem to matter which leaves this observer reflecting upon about how things were intended to work, because fairness would seem to dictate this boycotted state's issue should be moved to a less skewed environment for examination and argument.


Californians don't want gay marriage and said so at the ballot box: they voted against institutionalizing the legal contract of marriage between two parties of the same gender. I didn't see where they voted against gay people or gay relationships.


Can gay couples make a legally binding contract, call it something else (LifeBlend or something), other than the Judeo-Christian term without forcing the rest of us to redefine our concept? Sure they can. They don't wanna.

Some companies whose names you'd recognize extend health benefits to persons with a "life partner," yet, if I my "life partner" is a woman, I am not benefited. And it's legal. Is it fair? Or moot?


My company roomed me with a gay guy for 3 nights on a business trip at an expensive hotel. Would they have put me in a room with a woman? Did I like it? Was it fair?


This blog is about fairness, objectivity, and an embarrassingly questionable and overturn-ridden (US Supreme Court) track record by the 9th Circuit Court.

What it isn't, is homophobic