BuzzFeed - The direction and pace of court decisions about same-sex couplesâ marriages rights in the past 15 months brought the issue back to the Supreme Court with unanticipated speed. All that remains is the justicesâ decision whether to hear a case this term. Justine Zwiebel/BuzzFeed WASHINGTON â When a federal court ruled on Louisiana's ban on same-sex couples' marriages earlier this month, something shocking happened: The judge upheld the ban. U.S. District Court Judge Martin Feldman ruled the state's marriage ban was constitutional â issuing the first federal court decision examining the question and finding such a ban to be constitutionally permissible in more than a year. Even he realized this was an unusual decision. "It would no doubt be celebrated to be in the company of the near-unanimity of the many other federal courts that have spoken to this pressing issue," Feldman wrote in his opinion. Since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down part of the Def
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