Kincaid on "Republican Activist Judges"
Judge Joseph Tauro, who just found DOMA unconstitutional, was the chief legal counsel to Republican Massachusetts Governor John Volpe until he was nominated for Federal Judge by President Richard Nixon.
It kinda takes the wind out of the “liberal activist judge” claim, doesn’t it.
[Timothy Kincaid, "Another Republican Activist Judge", Box Turtle Bulletin, 9 July 2010.]
For some examples of exploding heads among the anti-marriage-equality crowd, see Jim Burroway's "NOM Is Furious — Just Furious!", also at BTB. As I expected, the claim has quickly appeared that it is obvious that the Federal government has jurisdiction over marriage laws, such a sharp about face that their feet must be hurting.
Also from a notorious "spokesperson": "Only an incompetent defense could have lost this case." I think she really meant "nonexistent" rather than "incompetent", although as we have seen the defense of "traditional marriage" in the recent Perry v. Schwarzenegger case has been both. (Apparently this case was lost at Obama's behest, btw.)