The court looks the other way as yet another federal district judge casts aside state laws without making any effort to preserve the status quo pending the court’s resolution of a constitutional question it left open in United States v. Windsor…This acquiescence may well be seen as a signal of the court’s intended resolution of that question.

Clarence Thomas, Dissent accompanying the Supreme Court majority decision not to halt gay marriages in Alabama after a lower court ruling, Feb 09, 2015