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Dec. 23rd, 2008 01:12 pmBrown Asks Court to Overturn Prop 8
SAN FRANCISCO--Supporters of Proposition 8, the California initiative that eliminated the right of same-sex couples to marry last month, reacted with surprise and dismay this weekend to the announcement by the state's attorney general that he had reversed his position and would ask California's high court to invalidate the measure...
In a brief filed on Friday, Brown abruptly changed sides, saying he had looked closely at state precedent and had concluded that he couldn't defend the new law. "Proposition 8 must be invalidated because the amendment process cannot be used to extinguish fundamental constitutional rights without compelling justification," Brown's brief says. The state Supreme Court, in its decision earlier this year, found that gay couples enjoy the same fundamental right to marry that straight people do...
The sponsors of Proposition 8 have asked the court to invalidate the marriages of the more than 18,000 same-sex couples who were married before the election last month. They also added some extra wattage to their legal team on Friday when they named Kenneth Starr, the former U.S. solicitor general who led the investigation of President Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky, as their lead counsel in the case.
It's about damn time that this thing gets knocked down. It was wrong to begin with. I think it REALLY annoying that the Prop 8 bigots have hired Ken Starr to be their champion. Talk about a kink! Sheesh!
SAN FRANCISCO--Supporters of Proposition 8, the California initiative that eliminated the right of same-sex couples to marry last month, reacted with surprise and dismay this weekend to the announcement by the state's attorney general that he had reversed his position and would ask California's high court to invalidate the measure...
In a brief filed on Friday, Brown abruptly changed sides, saying he had looked closely at state precedent and had concluded that he couldn't defend the new law. "Proposition 8 must be invalidated because the amendment process cannot be used to extinguish fundamental constitutional rights without compelling justification," Brown's brief says. The state Supreme Court, in its decision earlier this year, found that gay couples enjoy the same fundamental right to marry that straight people do...
The sponsors of Proposition 8 have asked the court to invalidate the marriages of the more than 18,000 same-sex couples who were married before the election last month. They also added some extra wattage to their legal team on Friday when they named Kenneth Starr, the former U.S. solicitor general who led the investigation of President Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky, as their lead counsel in the case.
It's about damn time that this thing gets knocked down. It was wrong to begin with. I think it REALLY annoying that the Prop 8 bigots have hired Ken Starr to be their champion. Talk about a kink! Sheesh!
