Ruth Bader Ginsburg To Marry Another Same-Sex Couple This Weekend

Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will officiate at the wedding of a same-sex couple this weekend.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, clearly the most progressive of all current Justices on the Supreme Court today, will officiate at the wedding of Danny Rubens and Danny Grossman this weekend. They will be the fourth same-sex couple the 81-year old jurist has married. 

Rubens, who attended Stanford University and Harvard University Law School, is a former law clerk of Ginsburg’s. Grossman attended Northwestern University and the University of Michigan Law School, according to their Facebook pages.

In July, Ginsburg said the nation’s highest court will definitely take a same-sex marriage case, and decide it no later than June of 2016, or possibly earlier. She did not indicate which case or cases the Court would accept.

In August of last year, Ginsburg became the first sitting Supreme Court justice to officiate at a same-sex wedding. She married Michael M. Kaiser and John Roberts (no relation to the Chief Justice) in Washington, D.C. 

“I think it will be one more statement that people who love each other and want to live together should be able to enjoy the blessings and the strife in the marriage relationship,” Ginsburg told the Washington Post at the time.

Deadline Detroit notes that “Ginsburg’s officiating won’t create any conflict of interest issues before the court,” according to Robert A. Sedler, a Constitutional Law professor at Wayne State University.

“She has the authority under New York law to preside over the wedding,” he said. “Same-sex marriages are legal in New York.” He said her officiating is no indication of bias.

But not all are of the same opinion.

“When Ginsburg officiated last year, Joe Jervis reports, “Charisma News denounced Ginsburg as a ‘tool of Satan.'”

In October of last year, retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor also officiated at a same-sex wedding. She married a couple together for 36 years, Jeffrey Trammell and Stuart Serkin.

Other Supreme Court Justices have officiated at weddings also. As the Washington Post once reported, “Justice Clarence Thomas performed a ceremony for radio host Rush Limbaugh.”

 

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