File this under: Get The Phuck Over Yourselves - Prop. 8 backers make long-shot bid to stop same-sex
The people behind California's Proposition 8 have launched a new legal effort to stop the state from permitting same-sex marriages.
It's a long shot, but it gets at an issue that has been lurking in the legal dispute all along. The question is whether they've gone to the right place to get it resolved.
The backers of Prop. 8, which amended the state Constitution to ban gay marriage, argue that when the smoke cleared after the U.S. Supreme Court shot down their appeal in late June, what was left was a victory only for the two gay couples who originally challenged the initiative in court. Now that those original plaintiffs are married, they argue, the state is free -- in fact, required -- to go right on enforcing Prop. 8's ban on any further same-sex marriages.
Their reasoning: When the U.S. Supreme Court booted the case, it left intact a 2010 ruling by U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker that found Prop. 8 unconstitutional. Walker issued an order -- directed to California's governor, attorney general and state officials who oversee county clerks -- barring them "and all persons under their control or supervision" from enforcing Prop. 8.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/12/19441850-prop-8-backers-make-long-shot-bid-to-stop-same-sex-marriage-in-california?lite
I hope the state of California can get them for costs...make the asshats pay for this.
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