Ok so just curious what this means specifically? Like originally I thought it was huge that the President's own office has actually filed against DOMA now? But as I went on I just became confused about what it actually means...
I would like to know this as well. The way it's phrased in that article is like they're purposely trying to confuse people, lol.
From what I understood from the article, I think that the DOJ and other branches of the government are just petitioning the court to grant standing to BLAG and the house to challenge the law during the appeal process. Maybe to prevent the scenario that happened during the Proposition 8 appeals. I think this is just a way to ensure that if it does go to the Supreme Court, we'll get a ruling on the merits and not a technicality.
I think Kidd is right. The main effect of this is that now there are several parties (the House, DOJ) urging the Supreme Court to take up the case, so that should increase the likelihood of it being taken up by the court in the next term.
Let's just hope Obama wins again so we don't have Romney reneging on the President's not defending it. Otherwise, then we have some issues again..I think.
According to this article: The next big Supreme Court controversy: same-sex marriage | Constitution Daily a final ruling could be reached by June of 2013.
