Marriage equality now federal law!

So far, today has been a bad day for the "right-to-work" gestapo.

This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court quite justifiably ruled that marriage equality is the law of the land. This is of course a good ruling, but I thought the court would rule 5 to 4 against marriage equality. Instead it ruled 5 to 4 in favor.

But what does it mean for other cases? Americans are right to celebrate, but will the celebration drown out news of other rulings the Supreme Court might make? As Justice Anthony Kennedy was the only conservative Justice who voted with the majority, was Kennedy's surprise vote just a ruse to get people to forgive bad rulings? In other words, did the court's conservative bloc concede this case so that people will put up with other cases?

Folks are also still celebrating yesterday's ruling in the King v. Burwell case - in which the Supreme Court quite rightly upheld Obamacare subsidies, rejecting a frivolous lawsuit that sought to gut them. I didn't think this ruling was a surprise, because the Supremes had already balked at a chance to gut the Affordable Care Act - and much of that law is actually fairly conservative by any raw measure. Remember, much of the ACA was based on ideas conservatives had 20 years ago to stave off single payer.

Marriage equality. It's fair, and it's the law.