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		pstuart on June 26, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules The SCOTUS didn't make any law here, they simply said the laws being passed were unconstitutional. Isn't that what they're supposed to do?

gherkin0 on June 26, 2015 [–]

I think the "making law" thing is reference to creating novel kinds of unconstitutionality that often contradict older notions.

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