Margaret Marshall Gives Rare Insight Into Her Thoughts
Everyone in Massachusetts knows that Margaret Marshall is afraid to leave her apartment nowadays with airplanes flying all over the state carrying banners that call for her to resign.        She still pretends that she doesn’t notice, but she gave a rare insight into her true feelings and concerns a few weeks ago. She is well aware that Rep. Emile Goguen (D-Fitchburg) is still on his mission to Remove her from the Supreme Judicial Court before he retires at the end of 2006.It can be accomplished by a simple majority in the two houses of the Legislature.	Marshall Speaking at Mass. Gay Bar Association Before Goodridge Case was initiated
Marshall left her home a few weeks ago for a short walk to the Academy of Arts and Science where she talked only to its members, which attracted only “a small crowd,” according to the State House News Service.        The judge noted that Gov. Romney has sharply criticized her opinion which mandated gay marriage across the state, and by extension, across the entire country.        “Hardly a day goes by without a charge of judicial activism or judicial legislating,” she said.        Courts should be criticized, she agreed, but overall criticism “has taken an ominous turn,” essentially calling for the judiciary to be subordinate to the other two branches of government.        “The warning signs are there for all to see,” Marshall said. “The question is do we have the will to protect the structure of government that for so long has protected us.”        She continued: “They should cause all of us the greatest concern.”        That’s exactly what Associate Justices Spina, Sosman and Cordy wrote when they tied the vote at 3-3 and forced Marshall to cast the deciding vote for gay marriage. They wrote that Justice Marshall had absolutely no power to write such a decision, which severely damaged our state Constitution which John Adams wrote for us in 1780, long before Margaret Marshall left her native country of South Africa at age 26 and came to America and bonded with Pinch Sulzberger, owner of the New York Times/Boston Globe conglomerate to force gay marriage upon this state.