In the week after the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in marriage litigation, Elizabeth Cooper, faculty director for Fordham University’s Feerick Center for Social Justice, told the Washington Blade that a ruling from the Supreme Court in favor of marriage bans would be the end of the line for litigation before the court seeking the right to marry for same-sex couples in the Sixth Circuit states.
“It’s not the end of the road under either the state constitution or state legislature, or even, for that matter, referenda,” Cooper said. “Individuals can certainly continue to advocate for same-sex couples to be able to marry, it’s just very hard to think about success coming anytime soon in states where there is a strong bias against gay people, or against the right of same-sex couples to marry.”
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