Another One Bites the Dust  The cognoscenti have been telling me
that the Supreme Court won't officially decide whether or not to
take a DOMA case until after the election, lest they influence
our voting one way or another. But today we got yet another clue
that they will have to—and which way they will almost certainly
decide.  That's because today the Second Circuit Court of
Appeals announced that it finds DOMA Section 3 unconstitutional,
in yet another decision written by a conservative Republican-
appointed judge, as was true in the Massachusetts cases decided
by the First Circuit.  The case: Edie Windsor, a widow who had
been with her wife for 40 years—legally married, of course, only
for a few years at the end—was suing the federal government for
taxing her wife's estate as if they were legal strangers. A New
York federal trial court judge decided summarily that was
unconstitutional nonsense—as has every federal court that's
heard such a case, in now ten opinions. The Second Circuit today
upheld that, sa