What Do Gay Marriage and Obamacare Have in Common?
Two Cases Before the Supreme Court Point to the Long-Running Battle Between States Rights and Federal Authority
I don’t drink champagne, but if the Supreme Court strikes down state bans on gay marriages this month, I might pop open a bottle in celebration. As a newspaper editorial writer and editor, I’ve been waiting a long time for this one, having fought two publisher bosses in two different cities, going back to the mid-1990s, to editorialize in favor of gay marriage. I won the second fight, but barely, at The Los Angeles Times, some nine years ago.
A Court decision that relies on our federal constitution to legalize …
