California

  Balkinization — Grading the California same-sex mar­riage opin­ion: The California Supreme Court’s opin­ion is dis­tress­ingly con­clu­sory. It com­bines a tor­tured and prob­a­bly unsal­vage­able sub­stan­tive due process analy­sis with a strange, ulti­mately barely suc­cess­ful equal pro­tec­tion argu­ment. If it is per­sua­sive, it is barely so. Law pro­fes­sors are grumpy peo­ple who care less about whether you’ve argued the right […]