Boston court decides that states do have rights after all; leaves on vacation to AZ :-)

A federal judge in Boston has ruled that the federal Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 violates the tradition of letting states set their own marriage standards.

Relevance: if the feds have to butt out of marriage contracts, will they also have to leave AZ alone for passing a law that requires federal law to be enforced.

The Dept. o' Justice's case against AZ slipped out today, and their arguments will have nothing to do with discrimination, but instead rely on the federal responsibility of enforcing immigration laws. The discrimination thing doesn't hold water, and they know it.

[Frankly, the discrimination thing plays well with special interest groups, but it's specious - there's no racial profiling in the AZ law.]

If city governments decide to NOT enforce immigration laws, does that mean DOJ will sue them, too? It remains to be seen whether DOJ will apply the logic they are using for AZ to sanctuary cities such as Houston and San Francisco.

This AZ thing is costing the state plenty of tourism and business. We'll have to wait and see if the Boston ruling applies, but it sounds like a "state's rights" thing to me.