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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyJune 8th, 2016
U.S. District Judge Callie Granade of Mobile has issued an order permanently enjoining errant judges and clerks in Alabama from trying to enforce the state’s constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage:
The judge writes that the order is needed because state laws against same-sex marriage remain on the books. She says the Alabama Supreme Court’s willingness to issue decisions conflicting with the U.S. Supreme Court demonstrate the need for permanent action.
Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has issued a string of orders demanding that Alabama clerks disobey Federal court rulings which declared Alabama’s same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional. Judge Granade was the judge who issued that ruling, and Moore has been in a locked battle with her ever since.
That battle continued long after the U.S. Supreme Court knocked down gay marriage bans nationwide last summer. On January 6 of this year, Moore issued an order reading, “Until further decision by the Alabama Supreme Court, the existing orders of the Alabama Supreme Court that Alabama probate judges have a ministerial duty not to issue any marriage license contrary to the Alabama Sanctity of Marriage Amendment or the Alabama Marriage Protection Act remain in full force and effect,” That prompted an ethics complaint by the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center and a ruling by the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission suspending Moore from the Supreme Court pending trial.
Granade notes that despite Moore’s suspension, her order was still necessary because the Alabama Supreme Court has refused to withdraw Moore’s order or a previous order instructing clerks to disregard the U.S. Supreme Court:
“The failure of the Alabama Supreme Court to set aside its earlier mandamus order and its willingness to uphold that order in the face of the United States Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell demonstrate the need for a permanent injunction in this case. . . . [A]s long as the Sanctity of Marriage Amendment and the Alabama Marriage Protection Act remain on the books, there continues to be a live controversy with respect to which the Court can give meaningful relief.”
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LJ
June 8th, 2016
Come on, I mean, how fast can you tap out Morse code on a telegraph key? Then again, I haven’t heard – as news does travel slowly – maybe they’ve upgraded to Internet Protocol over Homing Pigeon. It’s much higher bandwidth, but the delay is substantial…
Lucrece
June 8th, 2016
In the famous words of Ron White, ” You can’t fix stupid.”
Paul Douglas
June 9th, 2016
A deliberate refusal to uphold the SCOTUS ruling by the aspirational descendants of Jefferson Davis.
Fritz Keppler
June 10th, 2016
The ultimate revenge of the Confederacy over Abraham Lincoln, turning his party into that of Jefferson Davis. The takeover of the party by Dixiecrats is nearly complete.
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