Over the course of a decades-long career, one case has stood the test of time. “I wrote many hundreds of opinions, but there is one decision that comes up…
“I wrote many hundreds of opinions, but there is one decision that comes up every 20 years and it’s this one,” says former Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice, Margaret Marshall.
Twenty years later, she sat down with NBC10 Boston to reflect on the case and the different arguments that were brought before the court.Sign up for NECN newsletters. That line of legal reasoning led Justice Marshall and others on the court to conclude the governmental institution of marriage should be opened to all couples, but the historic nature of the ruling wasn’t immediately realized.
That frame of mind stems from how Supreme Judicial Court Justices approach their day-to-day case load.
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