[Torie]

There is no emergency here. There will be an issue in time about the benefits received, tax returns, and the like, but there is no reason why this case shouldn't go to an appellate court first, if it has jurisdiction, to be decided on an expedited but not warp speed basis. The California supremes will strike SF down, ir need be.

[Carry_Okie]

There is no emergency here.

Frankly, I think that belief lacks compassion for gay couples. I suggest that those who will have had their marriages invalidated will indeed have suffered harm. They will have been offered the false belief that they were engaging in a lawful union by an officer of the law, willing to engage in a willful act of civil disobedience. Withdrawing that hope for legitimacy will be traumatic, perhaps leading to riots and loss of life. There is thus every reason to stop these illegal proceedings. Newsome could just as easily have sued over Prop 22 without them.

That is, after all, why we have a rule of law.