Posted on 06/17/2009 2:04:05 PM PDT by calcowgirl
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today told a federal court in San Francisco that the state does not dispute that Proposition 8 may violate the federal Constitution and called for quick action to resolve the legality of the ant-gay measure law.
"Plaintiffs' complaint presents important constitutional questions that require and warrant judicial determination," the governor said in a written response to a federal challenge of the anti-gay marriage ballot measure.
" In a constitutional democracy, it is the role of the courts to determine and resolve such questions. … The administration encourages the court to resolve the merits of this action expeditiously."
... The federal lawsuit was filed shortly before the California Supreme Court rejected challenges to the measure on state constitutional grounds. Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown has argued that Proposition 8 violates the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
He also argued unsuccessfully in state court that the measure violated the California Constitution.
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Piss off arnie you freak!
What’s a constitutional democracy? Because I ain’t too bright, but I don’t think that’s what we got.
Isn’t girlie-man’s chief of staff a lesbian?
Jeez. It's a republic - a constitutional REPUBLIC.
what?????????
A Constitutional right to gay marriage???
It is kind of hard to win when the States lawyers are not defending the law.
” In a constitutional democracy, it is the role of the courts to determine and resolve such questions”
How’s that for doublespeak?
Just like empires of old, we are on the fast track of decline.
I didn’t think the Constitution mattered anymore anyway....
Seriously? This is ridiculous - our governor and AG are in court advocating that the will of the people be overturned based on wishful interpretation of the 14th Amendment.
People in Iran are marching in the streets - facing injury and death - just to have their votes counted - meanwhile our leaders openly admit electoral defeat and simply look for ways to tell us the votes of millions don’t matter compared to the opinions of the ‘elite’.
So says the great Constitutional scholar of our time.
Just insanity. If we don’t stand up to the leftist onslaught it is all downhill with hell at the bottom of the chute.
I bet he hasn’t read the Constitution.
Good ol’ Hot Tub aRnie!
Whatever happened to the “will of the people”?
“People in Iran are marching in the streets - facing injury and death - just to have their votes counted - meanwhile our leaders openly admit electoral defeat and simply look for ways to tell us the votes of millions don’t matter compared to the opinions of the ‘elite’.”
I guess we aren’t so different from them after all.
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