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Republicans in the state Assembly have penned a letter urging Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to appeal the recent ruling overturning California’s ban on gay marriage, says the Sacramento Bee newspaper.
The 27 Republican legislators who signed a letter to Gov. Schwarzenegger argued that by staying out of the case, Schwarzenegger and Brown will set a precedent that officials “may pick and choose the laws which they will and will not enforce and defend.”
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Meggles...
That’s what we love about old Meggie Whitman. She’s a diehard repub through and through. No guessing about her take on things. And no, she didn’t exactly say it like that. But yes, she did say that she would unquestionably defend Prop 8.
“The issue right now is, as I understand is ‘Will Proposition 8 have the appropriate support to actually make an appeal to the circuit court of appeals?’ “ Whitman said to the Sacramento Bee Newspaper in a press conference Friday afternoon. “And I think the governor, the attorney general today has to defend the constitution and has to enable the judicial process to go along and has to enable an appeal to go through. So if I was governor, I would give that ruling standing to be able to appeal to the circuit court.”
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Brewer signing in anti-immigration law. Hate to say it but some good might come out of Arizona's bigotry just the same.
This could be some hardcore poetic justice about to unfold:
In March of 1997, the Supreme Court set aside a Federal appeals court’s decision that Arizona could not require state employees to speak only English on the job,(Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona, No. 95-974) ordering a state employee’s challenge to Arizona’s English-only constitutional amendment to be dismissed as moot because the worker resigned seven years ago.
According to the New York Times (NYT) the Justices did not take a view on the merits of what was one of the more closely watched cases on the Court’s docket. Instead, they ruled unanimously, in an opinion by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, that because the Spanish-speaking employee had left her state job before the appeals court’s 1994 ruling, the Federal courts lacked jurisdiction to consider her argument that the provision violated her First Amendment right to free speech.
Now here comes the fun part. It’s a segment of the NYT article written about the case in 1997:
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EVERYBODY CHILL OUT. Too many people are freaking out over the Ninth Circuit Court’s decision to stay Prop 8 and not let gay folks marry for the “TIME BEING.” There was nothing permanently decided folks. And the truth of the matter is, most legal experts predicted this was EXACTLY what was going to happen and why it’s not a bad deal.
Here’s a great post from SDGLN.com written by attorney Ari Ezra Waldman . He’ll put your mind at ease. Waldman breaks it down in normal people speak on why today’s decision by the Ninth Circuit was par for the course and what’s to happen next. We gotta long ways folks before freedom. So don’t get yourselves worked up just yet. Read the following:
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From KTVU.com:
Same-sex weddings in California are on hold indefinitely after a federal appeals court blocked the unions Monday while it considers the constitutionality of the state’s gay marriage ban.
The decision, issued by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, trumps a lower court judge’s order that would have allowed county clerks to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples on Wednesday.
Chief U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker decided last week to allow gay marriages to go forward after ruling that the ban, known as Proposition 8, violated equal protection and due process rights of gays and lesbians guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution.
The Proposition 8 legal team quickly appealed Walker’s ruling in a case that many believe will end up before the Supreme Court.
Below is a PDF copy of Judge’s Decision:
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