Seidman

Prof. Bainbridge takes care of the matter here. I could say more - perhaps I will later, esp. about how choosing one at-the-time viable reading of the Constitution over a later, victorious one, as John Adams did re the Sedition Act, does not amount to "ignoring" the Constitution - but, spurred by a tweet from @walterolson, I realized that I have somewhat aggressively not cared what Prof.

You know, if the Court ends up holding that proponents of Prop. 8 lack standing to defend it in federal court, then that nullifies both the 9th Circuit's and Judge Walker's rulings, as those rulings were rendered in "cases" without valid plaintiffs.

Federal standing law doesn't necessarily affect state courts, however, so the California Supreme Court's holding that Prop. 8 had effectively

The Supreme Court has granted cert in the two closely-watch "gay rights" cases: the Prop. 8 same-sex marriage case, now called Hollingsworth v. Perry, and the only DOMA case to have yielded Court of Appeals decision thus far, U.S. v. Windsor. Note that in both cases, the Court directed the parties to brief the issue of standing. That's a different issue in the two cases:

In Hollingsworth, the