Friday, February 28, 2014

Ky. gay-marriage ruling a case of judiciary usurping voters' say

My op-ed on the judicial usurpation of voter rights on the marriage issue is in today's Lexington Herald-Leader

4 comments:

Singring said...

Six comments at the moment (at the Leader), none of them agreeing with your nonsense.

The times, they are a' changin'...

Martin Cothran said...

I will have to admit: you're way of deciding issues (counting heads on the comments section of a famously liberal newspaper that has lost most of its conservative readership and which is having trouble staying afloat financially) does have the advantage of simplicity.

Singring said...

'I will have to admit: you're way of deciding issues (counting heads on the comments section of a famously liberal newspaper that has lost most of its conservative readership and which is having trouble staying afloat financially) does have the advantage of simplicity.'

As opposed to your way of settling federal constitutional issues by referencing in-state popular votes from 10 years ago?

I see...

Martin Cothran said...

The constitutional issue is whether there is a legitimate constitutional issue with the vote ten years ago.

But if we're counting heads, yeah, 1,222,125 is a little bigger than, what did you say? Six?