The coming contest, fight, whatever, over Judge Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation to our country's top court gains context from the California Supreme Court's 6-2 decision the same day.

The California jurists said voters last year were within their rights to pass a proposition barring the state from authorizing same-sex marriage.

The decision can be read as a victory for good morals: an approach with which I would not take issue. There's more, nevertheless. The Californians held ba ...

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