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Judicial Activism, the Election, and the Gay Marriage Case

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

Peter Brown of the Quinnipiac U. Polling Institute has this post on the WSJ Political Perceptions blog regarding the impact of the California gay marriage case on the presidential election. By overturning a ban on gay marriage that was approved by 61% of California voters, the judges have helped revive an emotional issue that seems likely to work to Sen. McCain?s benefit and to Sen. Barack Obama?s detriment.... The specifics of the decision - in which the seven-member court overruled the will of a sizable majority of Californians - is tailor-made for an issue that Sen. McCain has already been pushing: His claim that he, unlike Sen. Obama, would not appoint judges who disregard the will of the people and make, rather than interpret, the law...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on May 19, 2008 (boomark / email).