Opponents of marriage equality want to throw out Prop 8 Judge Vaughn Walker's pro-equality ruling because Walker is gay. Adam Serwer unpacks this argument. Neil Sinhababu extends this anti-gay logic to include the animal kingdom:
I've gone from seeing this as an offensive argument grounded in thinly disguised antigay prejudice to appreciating the awesome consequences it would have for jurisprudence. The US Supreme Court regularly decides cases that address the rights that all Americans have. So in order to make sure that those decisions were made by impartial justices, we'd have to put foreigners whose rights wouldn't be affected on the Supreme Court. But that might not be enough. Since some Supreme Court decisions address the human rights of both Americans and foreigners, impartiality requires that we assign those decisions to animal judges.
(Hat tip: Bernstein)
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