So backward as usual! "Same-sex marriage in limbo in several states after Supreme Court ruling"

[RKP5637]

Some just gotta have persecution and discrimination. Send in the troops IMO! ... so tired of backward areas, fortunately nowhere near ...

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2015/06/28/Same-sex-marriage-in-limbo-in-several-states-after-Supreme-Court-ruling/9531435498028/

Government officials in at least five states, three in the historically conservative deep South, have voiced concerns over the high court's 5-4 ruling legalizing gay marriage, some going as far as refusing to observe the newly minted constitutional right. Officials in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Utah and Tennessee have announced they will be delaying enforcement or will be drafting legislation that exempts the state from following the ruling.

[DeadLetterOffice]

1. "drafting legislation that exempts the state from following the ruling"

Oh yeah, 'cause THAT'S gonna end well for them...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. I was wondering myself, how that's gonna work.

Actually, it's not.

Idiots.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Actually, Alabama is already under Federal Court order

to provide equal marriage.
The Federal Judge had ordered Ala. provide equal marriage, but then stayed the order pending the SCOTUS ruling.
So Ala. is saying that they have to wait till Monday to legally resolve the pending Federal Judge's order..
it has to be "unstayed" or mooted since the SCOTUS is now the relevant law.
It's not an excuse....the Federal Court owes a reply to the people who brought the lawsuit. They most likely will agree for dismissal but that has to be done in a legal manner, when court opens.

[elleng]

2. 'With all deliberate speed'

http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/6-legacy/deliberate-speed.html

[Orrex]

4. What happens to governors et al who violate the Constitution?

[RKP5637]

5. Probably nothing, as usual. Some will get voted in again as heroes. n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Anybody remember Orval Faubus?

He was the governor of Arkansas back in the '50s. After the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, declaring laws establishing segregated public schools to be unconstitutional and ordering nationwide integration, the school district in Little Rock started to comply and put together a plan to desegregate beginning in 1957. Nine black students enrolled at Little Rock High school, but segregationists organized to block the students from entering the building. Eisenhower had to send federal troops to enforce the integration plan and protect the students.

But Faubus still had other plans. In 1958 he went to court to try to stay the integration order until 1961. When this failed, he called a special session of the state legislature which enacted a law that enabled him to close all of the public schools in Little Rock. Eventually the schools reopened, but Little Rock was a mess in terms of race relations for years afterward. Faubus was re-elected as a "hero" of states' rights, but after a while he moderated his views.

It sounds to me that some of these governors are going to try to pull a Faubus. Whether that will harm them politically remains to be seen.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. One analyst on NPR said they had two weeks at most

assuming they had to design, print and distribute new forms.