The Absurdity of Suing the Supreme Court Over Gay Marriage
Guest Blog by Sarah Dubinsky, Esq. I wonder if Supreme Court Justices laugh. They must when they realize that five of them are being sued over gay marriage . Most people when served with a lawsuit utter an expletive of some sort or an “Are you kidding me?” I feel like in their chambers, one of them, maybe Justice Sonia Sotomeyer (she looks like she has a sense of humor), opened a bottle of fine brandy and started telling young lawyer jokes. She and the other four justices on the complaint, Justices Anthony M. Kennedy, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Elena Kegan are probably stringing together puns about the Alabama lawyer, Austin Burdick. Apparently, he seeks to be compensated $6,000,000 plus punitive damages for their majority decision allowing same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges . He is basically alleging breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and violations of the 5th and 14th Amendments (which t...