Brown Backs Court Ruling
I'll be talking on the show today with Art Leonard, Professor of Law at New York Law School, about what Republicans can do to stop New York State from recognizing California marriages (4: 40 ET). Meanwhile, California Attorney General Jerry Brown has formally come out against the wingnuts effort to prevent the California Supreme Court's ruling on same-sex marriage from taking effect before their anti-gay state constitutional amendment can be voted on:
"Brown's office joined his former courtroom adversaries, lawyers for 23 same-sex couples and the city of San Francisco, in asking the court to deny the stay and let the ruling take effect. Krueger, the state's lawyer, said the possibility of a reversal by the voters does not justify withholding rights from those who are legally entitled to them.
"Such an action would be tantamount to putting the (ballot) initiative into temporary effect more than five months before it is even submitted to the electorate," he wrote. "The court would ... set a dangerous and highly questionable precedent were it to manipulate its own processes to accommodate a political interest."
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