I'm going to weigh in on this Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore orders Probate Judges to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
I'm not even going to talk about the rights of same-sex couples to marry if they want to. Roy Moore has a habit of recommending that Alabama should simply refuse to follow judicial rulings that it doesn't like. Well, that's all well and good, except that if individual county Probate Judges don't like Roy Moore's ruling...what then? Marriage licenses are issued on the county level. Does the state court get to issue "mandates" that apply to individual counties? So far, Jefferson, Madison and Montgomery Counties have been issuing the licenses in spite of Moore's order. I wonder how he likes dem apples? My good money is on "he doesn't."
I'm not even going to talk about the rights of same-sex couples to marry if they want to. Roy Moore has a habit of recommending that Alabama should simply refuse to follow judicial rulings that it doesn't like. Well, that's all well and good, except that if individual county Probate Judges don't like Roy Moore's ruling...what then? Marriage licenses are issued on the county level. Does the state court get to issue "mandates" that apply to individual counties? So far, Jefferson, Madison and Montgomery Counties have been issuing the licenses in spite of Moore's order. I wonder how he likes dem apples? My good money is on "he doesn't."