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To: King of Florida

All this order does is dismiss a request by several private parties to enforce prior orders of the court on some probate judges. The order reinforces the court’s prior orders for judges not to issue homosexual marriage licenses. They stood their ground while dismissing a request that should have been dismissed; private parties cannot make requests on behalf of the government.


62 posted on 03/09/2016 10:37:36 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: CodeToad
I'm sorry, this is not a matter of opinion. The effect of the dismissal order is a simple matter of fact, and there are no lines to read between or tea leaves to read. The petitioners wanted the court to defy SCOTUS. The court dismissed the petitions. End of story.

If the court really had decided to defy SCOTUS, this would be front page news across the country. (Indeed, someone up thread was puzzled why it was not.) It would be an unprecedented move by a state, or at least one without precedent since the Civil War. But the court didn't and it's not front page news. It's not even much in the way of news. I have no idea why Liberty Counsel trumpeted this as a victory. It's not.

74 posted on 03/09/2016 11:57:27 AM PST by King of Florida (A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.)
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