Skylar
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The job a judge is to interpret the constitution and determine if a given law is compatible with the constitution. If a law isn't, the law is invalid. If it is, the law is valid.
In 44 of 46 instances, the judiciary found that gay marriage bans are not compatible with the constitution. So the laws were invalidated.
Here's another political science lesson for y'all. Lower circuit judges do not enjoy the power of overturning Windsor's 56 Findings that states have the constitutional power to define marriage for themselves until further notice. Shadowy refusals of stays are not merits that lower judges can cite "in anticipation of the unspoken/unargued inevitable", pre-emptively overturning Windsor.
It doesn't work that way and it's why Alabama's Supreme Court is 100% correct in finding on behalf of their citizen's right to self-govern. It's the law until/unless SCOTUS explains differently.
After being schooled so thoroughly for months on this ruling you're still claiming that the lower courts have overturned Windsor?!
Take Sil's posts for what they are: lies he tells himself to relieve the dissonance between his beliefs and reality.
In legal terms, pretty much Sil's entire argument is pseudo-legal gibberish.