The Gov and Attorney General have shown themselves to be enemies of the people of Calif. They should be impeached immediately.
I don’t understand how they don’t have standing, since they are actual voters disenfranchised by this ruling. Their votes have been invalidated,so they were impacted.
how about equal protection argument? It seems the governor is denying the voters their votes?
Capable of repetition yet evading review?
The ruling class doesn’t give a damn about the vote of the people. Not one damn.
Ultimately, I fear that the govt will try to force churches and clergy to perform same sex marriage ceremonies or lose their tax exempt status.
Voters who passed the proposition have no standing because they aren’t affected?
Just wow
... And WTF
It was touch and go for a few generations there after the American Revolution, but Their Lordships have now got the peasants back in their places.
How did we ever permit a single court and a single judge to outweigh the vote of the People?
I voted for Tom McClintock.
There should be 49 other states that come on line and say they won’t honor California marriages.
Well...at least now another state knows the pain we feel in Massachusetts.
My father had a VERY fitting saying for situations like this,but I’d be banned if I repeat it here....
Thousands of lawsuits brought by leftists over the years and never once have I heard of this rule being applied to their causes.
And the pot continues to boil over...
Perhaps they are affected by the lifting of the stay?
-PJ
There is a reason these people are pompous and arrogant. Voters didn’t care for many, many, many years.
We’re now paying the price for that apathy.
Do you have a ruling class ping list?
The law is supposed to be defended whether or not the executives (Governor nor Attorney General) agree with the law or not.
The arrogance of the ruling class must not be permitted to go on without them paying a penalty for such malfeasance.
I’d also believe Fair Opinion & her posse deserve to fry in hell for her aid in undermining the recall effort. Schwarzenegger is just as bad and arguably worse than Davis ever was.
“The Alliance Defense Fund, one of the organizations defending Prop. 8 in court, has said repeatedly that the ban’s proponents have full standing to carry on their fight, considering the gravity of the case and its impact on Californians.
“It’s ridiculous to think that the proponents of the ballot initiative would be prevented from continuing to represent the successful result of that initiative all the way,” said Douglas Napier, an Alliance Defense Fund lawyer.
Santa Clara University law Professor Margaret Russell said Napier and his colleagues might be able to overcome the standing issue raised by Walker.
“It’s an interesting question,” she said. “They weren’t the original defendants in this case, but I think that because they were the parties who actually tried the case in Walker’s court, they may have standing - because right now there is no other party to appeal.”
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/13/MNFA1ERRMV.DTL#ixzz0wW4eS7DL";
I’m a California voter - I should have standing!!!
The state has declared that it will not defend a constitutional amendment legally approved in a popular vote by a majority of the state's citizens, and overturned in a ridiculous decision by one lone gay activist federal district court judge.
The government of California has utter contempt for the people of California.
This is untenable. If the normal processes of government no longer function, and citizens are disenfranchised and disregarded by an increasingly imperious ruling class, I fear we are rapidly approaching a time when violence will become the only recourse.
Another example of the uselessness of Governor Ahnold and his liberal Republican faction