[Alter Kaker]

The issues aren’t the same but the optics are. The US Constitution and the federal courts - right or wrong - trump the Alabama Constitution and Alabama courts. That issue was settled at Appomattox. And if any state should attempt to reopen the issue, it ought not be Alabama given Alabama’s history.

[PapaNew]

The Constitution and state sovereignty were not repealed by the Civil War. The Civil War itself was actually an unconstitutional act by Lincoln.

Ex Post Facto, the reconstruction amendments "validated" at least the eventual declared purpose of the Civil War, but the Slaughterhouse Cases set precedent that 14A limited federal interference ONLY to prohibiting state laws that required segregating ex-slaves.

[ohioman]

This is worth fighting for and I stand 100% behind Alabama. Of course, my greatest fear is that someone will cave. I do know that Judge Roy Moore will fight.

[NKP_Vet]

“That issue was settled at Appomattox”.

And we have all become slaves of the Federal government since.