happy junteenth!

congrats, george and brad!

[I don't want to link and run, so a shout-out to Shanice Mckissick, who was 2nd runner up in the Miss June Teenth contest depicted above.]

from the NYT's coverage of California's Supreme Court lifting the state's ban on gay marriage:

The Supreme Court was the first state high court to strike down a law barring interracial marriage, in a 1948 decision called Perez v. Sharp. The vote in Perez, like the one in Thursday’s decision, was 4-to-3. The United States Supreme Court did not follow suit until 1967.

At present, six of the seven justices on the California court, including all of the dissenters, were appointed by Republican governors.

Thursday’s decision was rooted in two rationales, and both drew on the Perez decision.