Supreme Court hears lots of interpretations of what it just said

It would seem indisputable that the people who know better than anyone else what the Supreme Court was saying in its landmark decision on same-sex marriage are the nine justices themselves.After all, the 5-to-4 ruling in U.S. v. Windsorthat struck down a key portion of the federal Defense of Marriage Act came less than two years ago. It was the most scrutinized and consequential case in a term of big decisions. The court’s most influential member, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, and three of the dissenters wrote to explicate their own understandings of the ruling.Read full article >>