Not really… actually it’s more like House Republicans and the 27 Democrats who joined them who threaten the Supreme Court.

From Friday’s Washington Post:

The House approved a bill yesterday to strip the federal courts of jurisdiction over same-sex marriage cases, despite warnings by opponents that the measure is unconstitutional and would open the floodgates for efforts to prevent judges from ruling on other issues, from gun control to abortion.

With strong backing from the Bush administration, the Marriage Protection Act was adopted 233 to 194. However, the bill is likely to face strong opposition in the Senate, where some Republicans joined with Democrats last week to block a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.

This is really beyond offensive. These Republicans will, decades from now, look like the Southern Democrats of the 1950s who stood in the way of the Civil Rights Movement. What they are doing is an offense — not just to progressives — but to people who care about the rule of law in this country. The last time a stunt like this was tried — where Congress tried to limit the kinds of cases that the Supreme Court could hear? 1868

In a letter to lawmakers this week, Chai Feldblum, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, said the last time that Congress passed a law stripping the Supreme Court of authority to hear a constitutional challenge was in 1868, when it feared that the court might invalidate the military Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War.

Congratulations, to Bush and his junta in Congress… in looking for a "wedge issue" for the election this year, you’ve weakened our government.

Again.