Daily Targum - Voting on same-sex marriage

If you should ever visit the U.S. Supreme Court, you might notice that scattered quite surreptitiously around the building are turtles. Of course, I do not mean the living, breathing, disease-bearing kind. Rather, carved into the bottoms of lampposts, adorning some of the fixtures and even sold inside the gift shop are small figures bearing their image. If you were to ask one of the court's docents why this is so, he or she would respond quite happily that it is to embody the "slow and deliberate pace of the law." For some, this evokes the imagery of a strong and stable judicial system, designed to withstand an ever-vacillating and charged public opinion. Full story...