Return of the “activist judge” issue?
The New Jersey Supreme Court issued its ruling today in the same-sex marriage case.
It gave lawmakers a few months to change NJ law to extend marriage rights or create a new civil union for same-sex couples.
This should be a big fat softball pitch for the Bachmann campaign, since the senator led the cry in Minnesota against "activist judges" when the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts issued its ruling a few years ago.
Given how the issue was used by Republicans in the late stages of the 2004 campaign, this item in the news cycle could be just what the GOP ordered.
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Local reaction
Bachmann vs. Wetterling: "While this may not be an October surprise for Republicans, it’s certainly an October eyebrow-raising."
Rambling from the North: "No- its not about the fact that we're going to win the NJ Senate Seat (which we are) but the New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that, under the New Jersey Constitution, Homosexual couples have the same rights as heterosexual couples! WoOOOOOOooOOooOO!!! 2 states down, 28 to go!"
Perhaps the Foley story as a "player" in the 6th has been OBE.
Between this and the governor's new TV ad, it's starting to look like 2004 around here.