The Alabama Supreme Court just won't give up. Last week, they decided to try a new tactic.
Noting that a number of state courts successfully defied the U.S. Supreme Court after the dreaded and dreadful Dred Scott decision (in which the court ordered a slave returned to his owner), the Alabama court says that the Oberkfell decision falls in the same class because it puts children in the same type of danger as slaves!!! Therefore the 10th Amendment gives the states the rights to disregard Oberkfell, as some did after Dred Scott. Good Grief!!!!! I can't imagine this line of thought prevailing in the U.S., but if Ted Cruz were to be elected president, who knows?
Interestingly, a judge in Puerto Rico used the same argument against gay marriage in the U.S. territory. The Alabama court took it's cue from the Liberty Counsel, that right wing legal group whose lawyers are such scam artists that they should be disbarred for repeatedly ignoring the Constitution.
Anyway, it's unclear if this latest Alabama ruling will having any immediate effect. Last time Alabama's Supreme Court tried something like this, local officials in the state just ignored them and continued issuing licenses. I'd say they're on much firmer legal ground following the U.S. Supreme Court rather than the conservative crackpots on Alabama's. Question: Would Ted Cruz put an Alabama justice on the U.S. Supreme Court? Don't be shocked if he's elected. That's the way the Texas Republicans play politics. In your face hardball. And I'm not kidding, folks.
BTW, not watching the GOP debate Thursday night. Don't want to waste my time after last week's depressing insultfest.
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