Attorneys General ask SCOTUS to take up marriage cases

[Antinor01]

17 AG’s have submitted a brief to SCOTUS asking them to take up the marriage cases from Utah, Virginia and Oklahoma so that the issue can be settled. An additional 15 AG’s requested the same thing, but specifically asking that they rule in favor of marriage equality.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/massachusetts-files-pro-gay-marriage-court-25253660

The last paragraph -

Even if concern for the unintended consequences of permitting same-sex couples to marry were a legitimate consideration here, the Court need not worry
that its intervention is being sought “too soon.” Based on our collective experience, the Amici States can attest that marriage equality has invigorated the institution. After more than ten years of marriage equality, we understand its implications: more couples who love one another are free to marry; more children are able to enjoy the benefits and protections that attend their parents’ marital relationship; more families enjoy the privileged status and security conferred by civil marriage; and more communities benefit from the stability marriage facilitates. The institution has not suffered or been fundamentally altered. Nor has marriage equality diminished the privileged status of marriage in our society.

It is time for marriage equality nationwide.

Never thought I’d see the day that 15 AG’s would say something like that.

[Patty_O_Furniture]

Shouldn’t that be 15 A’s G?

[YogSothoth]

It objectively wrong to put the descriptor like that behind the subject in American english because it sounds sooo wrong! WRONG I SAY! Either change it to General Attorneys or just accept that people are going to say Attorney Generals! Or else! :mad::mad::mad::mad:

[Antinor01]

To my understanding, attorneys general is the correct plural. Although merriam-webster does list attorney generals as another option.

[YogSothoth]

shakes fist

NO!

[Marley23]

@Antinor01

17 AG’s have submitted a brief to SCOTUS asking them to take up the marriage cases from Utah, Virginia and Oklahoma so that the issue can be settled. An additional 15 AG’s requested the same thing, but specifically asking that they rule in favor of marriage equality.

I still expect the court to take up this issue in the fall and legalize SSM on a federal basis in the spring. But we’ll see.

[pulykamell]

@Antinor01

To my understanding, attorneys general is the correct plural. Although merriam-webster does list attorney generals as another option.

It is. That is, it’s the formal plural, and if you’re following a style guide, most likely, that’s the one it’s going to opt for. I agree with YogSooth, though. It sounds a bit unnatural in English.

[SpoilerVirgin]

@YogSosoth

It objectively wrong to put the descriptor like that behind the subject in American english because it sounds sooo wrong! WRONG I SAY! Either change it to General Attorneys or just accept that people are going to say Attorney Generals! Or else! :mad::mad::mad::mad:

Yikes! Who knew a thread about marriage equality could be so controversial?

[silenus]

@Marley23

I still expect the court to take up this issue in the fall and legalize SSM on a federal basis in the spring. But we’ll see.

This court? That would be the logical, proper and decent thing to do, so I’m not holding my breath. Scalia will find some way of torturing the Constitution into justifying rejecting SSM.

[CalMeacham]

@SpoilerVirgin

Yikes! Who knew a thread about marriage equality could be so controversial?

I think we need a Supreme Court ruling on the proper plural form.

[Marley23]

@silenus

This court? That would be the logical, proper and decent thing to do, so I’m not holding my breath. Scalia will find some way of torturing the Constitution into justifying rejecting SSM.

There aren’t nine Scalias. I think the four liberal justices would probably support overturning all SSM bans, and Roberts or Kennedy, who wrote the Windsor decision, might do the same.

[BrotherCadfael]

@Antinor01

To my understanding, attorneys general is the correct plural. Although merriam-webster does list attorney generals as another option.

I generally refer collectively to our several canines as “Puppies Dog” instead of “Puppy Dogs”.

[Senegoid]

@CalMeacham

I think we need a Supreme Court ruling on the proper plural form.

Or a consensus of decisions from the fifty State Courts Supreme.

[C_K_Dexter_Haven]

@BrotherCadfael

I generally refer collectively to our several canines as “Puppies Dog” instead of “Puppy Dogs”.

Not to mention my mother-in-laws – because I have several different mothers, under the different laws of different states.

[Leaper]

@YogSosoth

It objectively wrong to put the descriptor like that behind the subject in American english because it sounds sooo wrong! WRONG I SAY! Either change it to General Attorneys or just accept that people are going to say Attorney Generals! Or else! :mad::mad::mad::mad:

coughPassers-bycough

[ElvisL1ves]

@CalMeacham

I think we need a Supreme Court ruling on the proper plural form.

Yes, a civilian ruling, not by one of those court-martials.

[Hari_Seldon]

Much as I liked the statement of the 15 AGs [sic], it is not an argument over the constitutionality of the states’ bans, only for why their foolishness. Especially with that ruling from LA, the court can hardly duck the case now.

[Antinor01]

@Hari_Seldon

Much as I liked the statement of the 15 AGs [sic], it is not an argument over the constitutionality of the states’ bans, only for why their foolishness. Especially with that ruling from LA, the court can hardly duck the case now.

Oh certainly. That was just their summary of a multi-page brief.

[BigT]

I have no problem with attorneys general, but AsG is stupid. Do you type MsiL instead of MiLs? Abbreviations take their plural S at the end.

And I have also suspected that the LA case was decided as it was to force this to go to the Supreme Court. It otherwise seems to contradict all the other findings. Redder states have had it decided against SSM discrimination.

[Antinor01]

@BigT

I have no problem with attorneys general, but AsG is stupid. Do you type MsiL instead of MiLs? Abbreviations take their plural S at the end.

And I have also suspected that the LA case was decided as it was to force this to go to the Supreme Court. It otherwise seems to contradict all the other findings. Redder states have had it decided against SSM discrimination.

Though doesn’t it go to the circuit first? If the circuit court goes the way the rest have, that still leaves SCOTUS an out. (at least to my understanding…limited as it is)