Federal judge: Alabama can't enforce laws banning same-sex marriage

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Source: AL.com

Federal judge: Alabama can't enforce laws banning same-sex marriage

By Kent Faulk | [e-mail]
[e-mail] | https://twitter.com/krfaulk
on June 09, 2016 at 7:35 AM, updated June 09, 2016 at 7:44 AM

A federal judge, citing the unwillingness of Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore and others to go along with the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last year making same-sex marriage legal nationwide, this week entered a permanent injunction barring state officials from enforcing laws banning gay marriage.

U.S. District Judge Callie V. Granade, who is based in Mobile, issued the permanent injunction Tuesday in the case of Strawser v. Alabama, one of the lawsuits filed by same-sex couples around the state seeking marriage equality.

The permanent injunction binds all Alabama probate judges and others "who would seek to enforce the marriage laws of Alabama that prohibit or fail to recognize same-sex marriage."
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In her order Granade repeatedly noted Alabama officials' resistance to same-sex marriage. ... "Given the actions by Alabama state and local officials during this litigation, both before and after the Supreme Court decided Obergefell (the national same-sex marriage case), it cannot be said with assurance that there is no reasonable expectation that Alabama's unconstitutional marriage laws will not again be enforced," Granade wrote. ... Granade specifically noted actions by the Alabama Supreme Court before and after the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in June 2015.

Read more: http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2016/06/federal_judge_permanent_injunc.html

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The first two are two completely different songs.

I'm Alabama Bound:

Alabamy Bound:

A third one, Alabama Jubilee:

It doesn't get much odder than this:

[GOLGO 13]

1. Oh Bama, we will drag you kicking & screaming into the 21 century.

You WILL obey the law.

[stonecutter357]

2. K&R!

[dbackjon]

3. President Trump would overturn all of this with his judicial nominees

[Iggo]

4. Believe it.

[LS_Editor]

5. Well, duh. The U.S. Supreme Court and federal law trump the states.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. The Bible Belt states have been arguing against that since "the War"

and apparently believe that saying so, makes it so.

[Cryptoad]

7. you correct

If u read the Articles of Succession of most of the Southern States , they all state the main reason for succession that it was Federal Gubermint not forcing the northern states to enforce the Federal Runaway Slave laws

Alabama has become a third world country under leadership of the ALGOP. Gov is being impeached, speaker of the House under 26 federal indictments and being tried now. Many Probate Judges are not issuing any Marriage Licenses of any kind so as not to issue a Same Sex License.

[LoverOfLiberty]

9. I think we are going to have to call a moratorium

on that word you used that means overrides.

[47of74]

8. Dear Roy Moore

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. Roy Moore lawyer: Federal judge's gay marriage order helps chief justice's ethics case

Roy Moore lawyer: Federal judge's gay marriage order helps chief justice's ethics case

By Kent Faulk
[e-mail] | https://twitter.com/krfaulk
on June 09, 2016 at 3:52 PM, updated June 09, 2016 at 4:07 PM

The attorney for Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, who is suspended on judicial ethics charges related to his stances against gay marriage, says a federal judge's order this week actually bolsters Moore's case.
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"While it was not her intent to help the case of Chief Justice Roy Moore, federal Judge Granade's order proves our argument that the charges against the Chief have no foundation," said Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel and Moore's attorney. "Following the 2015 orders of the Alabama Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court, probate judges sought clarity as to what they should do," Staver stated. "In January 2016, Chief Justice Moore issued an Administrative Order advising the judges that the 2015 orders remained in effect and the Alabama Supreme Court would be issuing an opinion on their final disposition."
In March 2016, the Alabama Supreme Court dismissed the petitions from two groups that oppose same-sex marriage that led to its March 2015 orders but left the 2015 orders in place.

"How then can the Judicial Inquiry Commission (JIC) single out Chief Justice Moore when he issued an accurate order regarding the status of the case and when the Court as a whole agreed with him?" Staver stated. "The JIC is not a court of law, is wrong on the law, and has no business wading into legal disputes. The JIC charge is politically motivated and must be dismissed," he stated.

"Moreover, Judge Granade has no authority over the Alabama Supreme Court but she is acting as if she is the top appellate court in the state," Staver stated. "The only Court that has authority over the Alabama Supreme Court is the U.S. Supreme Court. The other parties are free to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case but they have refused to do so."

and

ALABAMA: Roy Moore’s Hate Group Says Federal Court Has No Jurisdiction To Enforce SCOTUS Ruling