Fordham Law School Professor Elizabeth Cooper spoke to The National Law Journal about the Supreme Court’s silence on marriage equality.
“The court typically has been very hesitant to get ahead of the public will, but has done so when striking down segregation (Brown v. Board of Education) and the ban on interracial marriage (Loving v. Virginia),” Elizabeth Cooper, faculty director of the Feerick Center for Social Justice at Fordham University School of Law said via email.
Now that a majority of Americans support marriage equality, she added, “The court’s decision to not step in and to let these marriage rights stand, is, perhaps, a recognition of this growing support.”
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