Mansfield Fox

Law student. Yankees fan. Massive fraggle. Just living the American dream.

Thursday, July 27, 2006

"I'm Feeling Less Nuts, Thank You."

I'm not a smart man (and my brain is perhaps a little addled still from the Bar [plus it's pretty early]), but am I correct in my reading that Dahlia Lithwick's beef with the Washington Supreme Court is that, in its recent gay-marriage decision, it applied the *actual* Rational Basis test, as opposed to Heightened or even Strict Scrutiny under the Rational Basis name, as the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court did in Goodridge?