This is going to the Supreme Court no matter how the butt bandit rules. It might actually help get the Social Conservatives fired up for November if he does overturn the will of the people.
I know this applies only to California specifically, but, as a federal case, won’t this call into question each state that has a constitutional amendment defining marriage?
In this case, the state Supreme Court of Calif. upheld Prop. 8 even though it overturned their own previous court order mandating homosexual marriage. So if all state laws and procedures were followed in passing Prop. 8, where is the violation of federal law?
Or if the judge finds a violation of federal law if a state defines marriage, doesn’t this call into question each other state defining marriage also? If this judge decides that it was against federal law to define marriage within the borders of a state, then how can any state define marriage at all? Are we at a point where only judges can define marriage?
No matter what happens, the U.S. Supreme Court will have to weigh in.