March 11th, 2015
Remember when the Supreme Court of the State of Alabama declared that they and they alone know what is in the US Constitution and ordered all counties in the state to stop issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples? Well, at the time, they made one tiny temporary exception.
They told Probate Judge Davis that he needed to get back to them about whether he thought that he was under any obligation to perform the tasks that Federal Judge Granade had ordered him to do.
And Davis, not being a complete lunatic nor wishing to be held in contempt, requested that he be exempted from the state court’s orders. Yeah, like that was going to happen! (WSFA)
The probate judge sought an 11-day extension to comply with the court’s order motion and on March 9 advised the court that he should not be included in the March 3 order because it would require him to violate a federal district court order.
The Alabama Supreme Court denied Davis’ request saying his concern was without merit.
“Davis has made no showing that he was, or is, the subject of any previously entered federal court order other than the one issued in Strawser,” the justices wrote, “and he makes no showing that that order has any continuing, binding effect on him as to any marriage-license applicants beyond the four couples who were the plaintiffs in that case and who already have received the relief they requested.”
I rather suspect that if Judge Granade was not pissed off already, this might have done it. And the ‘Baba Supremes may well discover that her idea of “without merit” is quite different from the one the good ol’ boys have.
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Lord_Byron
March 11th, 2015
The federal courts need to come in, and for lack of a better phrase, bitch slap the Alabama Supreme Court. Their state tried similar bullshit 50 years ago and they haven’t learned since.
Tim Coco
March 12th, 2015
What were the terms of Alabama’s readmission as a state following the Civil War? Certainly, “nullification” is off the table. Maybe a state of war exists.
Paul Douglas
March 13th, 2015
I’m sure Scalia, Alito and Uncle Tom are enjoying this comedy court. Judicial activism at its finest!
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