Law Professor Predicts Nationwide Marriage Equality in 2015

By the time the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of state SSM bans—probably about a year from now—there will no longer be much risk that recognizing a right to SSM will put the Court out of step with the country. By then it will be clear, as it is already clear to every judge to have ruled since Windsor, that it is, in Justice Scalia’s peculiar phrasing, possible for the Justices to “get away with” the long-overdue recognition that SSM bans violate the constitutional guarantee of equal protection of the laws.

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