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Posted on 06/30/2013 10:18:15 AM PDT by Innovative
The Supreme Court rejected an emergency request to stop same-sex marriages in California, a lawyer for the gay couples who sued said Sunday.
Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., one of the lawyers who challenged Proposition 8, said that he had just received word from the court Sunday morning that Justice Anthony M. Kennedy denied a request by ProtectMarriage, the sponsors of Proposition 8, to halt the marriages.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Actually that’s not quite accurate. There is no law. It is a court procedure. Big difference.
Also, the 9th Circuit was the one that issued the injunction, not SCOTUS. Technically, the 9th Circuit could have lifted it’s injunction at any time, even while the case was being heard. So the timing of when the 9th Circuit decides to lift it’s injunction has nothing to do with the 25 day period to ask for a re-hearing.
And let me be clear yet again. I am NOT siding with the Court’s decision in this matter. Just explaining the Procedure is all.
Is this lawyer the only source? I can't find this at the Supreme Court website.
The argument the gay marriage supporters were making was that it’s not allowed to take away marriage once it was already granted, and the circuit court agreed with this. That’s why it applied to California only and not every state. However, it’s still a devastating blow to traditional marriage supporters. Why? It means every gain the gay marriage supporters make is permanent, whereas every gain we make is (at best) temporary.
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Here’s the Associated Press report:
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/supreme-court-gay-marriage-justice-kennedy-93598.html
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Worthless Courts system, time to forget the Supreme robed thieves and the corrupt Federal Gov. We need to get out of the damn Union!
All news outfits are reporting it from AP to Reuters.
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