Cour suprême et mariage entre conjoints de même sexe: surprise!

En rejetant aujourd'hui plusieurs appels émanant de cinq états américains qui tentaient de faire interdire les mariages entre conjoints de même sexe, la Cour suprême ouvre, au moins temporairement, la porte à la reconnaissance de ces mêmes unions dans une trentaine d'état. Une décision qui surprend quelques observateurs. Pas plus tard qu'hier je mentionnais sur ce carnet web que le plus haut tribunal est généralement considéré comme étant actuellement plus conservateur, d'où l'étonnement. On peut parier que le sujet reviendra devant la Cour suprême éventuellement.

 "The move does not preclude the Supreme Court from taking up the issue in the future, perhaps even later in the current term. Nevertheless, many gay rights backers said they believe the high court is tacitly backing the wave of court rulings across the country finding a right to same-sex marriage.

 “That’s a fairly strong signal that the federal judges that have ruled on this have been getting it right all along,” former Solicitor General Ted Olson said of the Supreme Court’s refusal to take up the same-sex marriage cases brought to it in recent months. “If I was a federal judge, I would read this decision as saying that the opponents, if they still exist, on the Supreme Court of marriage equality have sort of decided that they don’t want to get into this.”

Liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg may have foreshadowed the court’s decision when she suggested to an audience last month that the justices were likely to await a difference in opinion among the circuit courts to rule on the issue. Thus far, all three federal appeals courts to take it up have agreed that it is unconstitutional for states to prohibit same-sex marriage.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/gay-marriage-supreme-court-111626.html