Via JMG: Ginsburg: SCOTUS Will Hear DOMA

Yesterday Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told a group of Colorado students that DOMA will likely be considered by the Court in the next term.

Ginsburg spoke at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She was asked a student-submitted question about the equal-protection clause and whether the nation’s high court would consider it applying to sexual orientation. Ginsburg said with a smile that she couldn’t answer the question. She said she could not talk about matters that would come to the court, and that the Defense of Marriage Act would probably be up soon. “I think it’s most likely that we will have that issue before the court toward the end of the current term,” she said.

So there it is. And no mention of Prop 8.

Labels: DOMA, LGBT rights, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, SCOTUS

Reposted from Joe