“A Federal District Court judge, Callie V. Granade, ruled last month that Alabama’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, but put her ruling on hold until Monday, to give the state a chance to appeal. On Sunday night, the state’s chief justice, Roy S. Moore, sent an order to county probate judges stating that they could not “issue or recognize a marriage license that is inconsistent” with state law.
But on Monday morning, the United States Supreme Court refused the state’s request to stay Judge Granade’s order pending the outcome of the state’s appeal.
Chief Justice Moore’s position on the balance of federal and state power has deep resonance in a region with a history of claiming states’ rights in opposition to the federal government, and in a state where a governor, George Wallace, stood in a doorway of the University of Alabama in 1963 in an unsuccessful bid to block its federally ordered integration.”
Read more here: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/10/us/alabama-supreme-court-same-sex-marriages.html?_r=0
Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) host of The Young Turks discusses. Do you agree with Cenk’s opinion? Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
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