Comments on: Balloting results http://overlawyered.com/2005/11/balloting-results/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=balloting-results Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 26 May 2012 19:53:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Deoxy http://overlawyered.com/2005/11/balloting-results/comment-page-1/#comment-1526 Deoxy Wed, 09 Nov 2005 10:19:31 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=2777#comment-1526 As I commented before about "marriage amendments", I see the Texas amendment as a sort of "line in the sand". From what I've seen, it IS poorly drafted, and there will probably be some repercussions of that, but people pass these things to prevent what happened in Mass., the belief being that it's easier to clean up a poorly drafted amendment than try to recover from a bad state supreme court decision (visions of Roe v Wade, for instance). Actually, I lay the blame for such a bad amendment squarely at the feet of the Roe v Wade jusices and the Mass supremes. As I commented before about “marriage amendments”, I see the Texas amendment as a sort of “line in the sand”. From what I’ve seen, it IS poorly drafted, and there will probably be some repercussions of that, but people pass these things to prevent what happened in Mass., the belief being that it’s easier to clean up a poorly drafted amendment than try to recover from a bad state supreme court decision (visions of Roe v Wade, for instance).

Actually, I lay the blame for such a bad amendment squarely at the feet of the Roe v Wade jusices and the Mass supremes.

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