Jindal finally relents

[rpannier]

So damned generous of you Bumby... I mean Bobby


New Orleans is finally allowed to join the rest of Louisiana and issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Following a court ruling ordering it to do so, Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration agreed Thursday (July 2) afternoon to allow the state Department of Vital Records in downtown New Orleans to issue the marriage licenses. Every other marriage license office in the state began doing so earlier this week.

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Orleans Parish is the only place where a state agency -- not a court clerk -- is in charge of authorizing marriage documents. So, unlike elsewhere in the state, Jindal had more control in Orleans over the issuing of marriage licenses. Same-sex couples who wanted to be married in Orleans were having to travel to the 2nd City Court in Algiers for a license this week.

The administration was forced to relent following Thursday's U.S. District Court ruling that struck down the state's same-sex marriage ban. The district court was responding to the decision made by the U.S. Supreme Court last week to recognize same-sex marriage in all 50 states.

link:
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/07/bobby_jindal_administration_wi.html

Jindal is such a hateful prick.
His spokesman was really quick to pass off all questions to state agencies and county governments, rather than directly address the defeat

[shenmue]

1. He didn't want to get sued.

[irisblue]

2. choke on the 14th amendment you useless twit

[abakan]

3. I find him so disgusting

I wonder how he has been elected to anything, much less, Governor of a state, in the United States.

[Princess Turandot]

4. Someone may have told the jackass that the Court of Appeals was not very amused by him.

Their order to the district court included this line. I somehow doubt it was aimed at the federal district court judge.

Obergefell, in both its Fourteenth and First Amendment iterations, is the law of the land and, consequently, the law of this circuit and should not be taken lightly by actors within the jurisdiction of this court.

They also said this:

The district court must act expeditiously on remand, especially in view of the declining health of plaintiff Robert Welles.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2157162/smith-louisiana.pdf

[Betty Karlson]

5. That's a close as the court can get to outright saying:

Hey Jindal, stop this nonsense NOW.