THE rule of law has long been a stranger to the sweltering lowlands known as the Tierra Caliente in the Mexican state of Michoacán.
But a law career beckoned when a stranger came up the dirt road to the family's home when Robert was 5.
The air is clean, all the people are white and if you have a problem with a stranger, the law encourages you to acquire a concealed-weapon permit.
Those who do not wish to own guns may sleep safer knowing that the people who do own guns have been thoroughly vetted by a federal law enforcement agency and not a stranger from a gun show or internet forum.
Still, that's not quite in the league of her former mother-in-law -- known for novels like "A Stranger Is Watching" and "The Cradle Will Fall" -- and sister-in-law, who are mainstays on the best-seller lists.
In an earlier gay-rights case, Romer v. Evans, which declared unconstitutional an amendment passed by Colorado citizens exempting homosexuals from protection under anti-discrimination laws, Justice Kennedy had written for the majority that "a State cannot so deem a class of persons a stranger to its laws".
(The Romer majority opinion, written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, famously admonished, "A State cannot so deem a class of persons a stranger to its laws". Kennedy went on to write the subsequent Supreme Court majority opinions for Lawrence v. Texas, United States v. Windsor, and Obergefell v. Hodges, all of which upheld gay rights).
A State cannot so deem a class of persons a stranger to its laws.
Writing for the majority, Anthony Kennedy stated that the Colorado amendment lacked "a rational relationship to legitimate state interests," and that "[a] state cannot so deem a class of persons a stranger to its laws.... .. "Of course it is our moral heritage that one should not hate any human being or class of human beings.
Laws were uniformly harsh when a slave killed a stranger who was a freeman.
