In effect, the court wrote a new law, the Bush legal team maintains.

"The matter is closed, but not complete," the court wrote.

"We believe that murder and capital felony are different," the court wrote.

But such partners do not have many of the rights central to marital partnerships, the court wrote.

Some relationship between government and religious organizations is inevitable," the court wrote.

"Congress was dealing with reality, not fantasizing about what might be," the court wrote.

In its decision, the court wrote: "Get a license or do not sample.

The Court wrote modestly, it put forth no grand philosophy.

The courts can't write you a blank check for things that haven't happened yet.

Moreover, the Court wrote, "ongoing pain did not constitute an emergency in this case."