the feminist librarian reads

Friedman’s opinion suggests that even a Reagan appointee—albeit in a northern state where opinion is probably already in favor of gay marriage by a majority—can no longer comprehend such laws as anything but bigotry,” said Michael Klarman, a constitutional law scholar at Harvard Law School, in an email. Since the Supreme Court’s most recent ruling on this issue, in Windsor v. United States last June, deliberately did not weigh in on state bans, he said, “I would have predicted that Democratic lower court judges would use that decision to strike down bans on gay marriage and that Republican lower court judges would do the opposite.