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To: Timber Rattler

Here’s what the guy is caiming:

County clerks like Kim Davis, on the other hand, are not being asked to administer or implement a federal program. To the contrary, issuing marriage licenses is a function of state and local government governed by state law.

Rather, Davis and other county clerks are being ordered to administer their own state and local programs in conformance with the Constitution, as interpreted by federal courts, and the Supremacy Clause provides that state laws must yield when they conflict with federal law.


15 posted on 09/05/2015 7:09:03 PM PDT by NoLibZone (I voted for Mitt. The lesser of 2 evils religious argument put a black nationalist in the W.H.)
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To: NoLibZone

There is no federal marriage law. We are a nation of laws not a nation of court orders.


31 posted on 09/05/2015 9:05:44 PM PDT by Captain Compassion
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