May it please the court. This marks the return to the from the sames extraordinary circumstances in the wake of the september 11 terrorist attacks. The judges concluded the theory is disclosed. All of the judges below concluded that plaintiffs core theory is squarely foreclosed by iqbal, but the Second Circuit majority formulated their own list merger theory of liability, premising on the alleged decision of attorney general ashcroft to merge the new york list of detainees with the ins list, therefore continuing the hold until clear policy for detainees on both lists. Bivens liability does not attach for at least three reasons. First, the bivens remedy should not be extended to National Security and policy decisions by senior officials in the wake of the september 11 attacks. If the damages remedy is to be imposed, it is for congress, not the work, to do so. Second, the list merger theory suffers from the same deficiencies this court identified in kickball itself. Among other things, t
any statelegal for that of bridges the immunities of a citizen of the united states. i think it is clearly .iscrimination they have the right to get married as they wish, just like a homosexual people do. let s take a couple of news from twitter. here is one from dale. he says here is another one from gavin talking about the deputy general, who argued we are going to get a chance to see the argument at 11:00 eastern. next, opposing same-sex marriage. opposing. i do not support it whatsoever. thatat did you hear today convince you further? careeraughter lost her in the air force because of it. she has a son. her first choice was to have a son. her second choice was to be gay. her son, we must think of our children. she is an adult. she can handle it. he was a little boy who got made fun of at school, that got beat- up at school, had very few friends. the begin speedup because his mom was married to another woman did he get beat up because his mom was married to ano
next up, today s case. the supreme court heard the second of two cases. is u.s. versus windsor. thatis the federal law defines marriage between one man and one woman. die case was brought by ed windsor. was denied a marital extension on federal estate taxes under the defense of marriage act. she is asking the down the law as on constitutional. the refund of the $363,000 in estate taxes. the argument begins with the question of standing and consideration. we will hear argument this morning in case 12-307, united states v. windsor, and we will begin with the jurisdictional discussion. ms. jackson? mr. chief justice, and may it please the court: there is no justiciable case before this court. petitioner, the united states, does not ask this court to redress the injuries it asserts. the house of representatives bipartisan legal advisory group, the blag, which does seek redress in the form of reversal, asserts no judicially cognizable injury. while it is natural to want to re