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Holder: State Attorneys General Don’t Have to Defend Same-Sex Marriage Bans
Time ^ | Feb. 24, 2014 | Alex Fitzpatrick

Posted on 02/25/2014 6:22:39 AM PST by Qbert

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a New York Times interview published Monday that state attorneys general aren’t required to defend laws they consider discriminatory, including bans on same-sex marriage.

Holder said that state attorneys general should carefully analyze laws that raise major constitutional issues before deciding whether to defend them.

“Engaging in that process and making that determination is something that’s appropriate for an attorney general to do,” Holder told the Times.

To make his case, Holder said that if he were an attorney general “in Kansas in 1953,” he “would not have defended a Kansas statute that put in place separate-but-equal facilities.”

Six state attorneys general have decided against defending their states’ same-sex marriage bans from challenges, inviting criticism from those who argue an attorney general’s job is to defend their respective state’s laws regardless of their personal attitudes towards those laws.

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KEYWORDS: biggerrigger; ericholder; gaymarriage; holder; rigthevote; voterigger
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To: SoFloFreeper

I understand the distinction, the larger point is that the nation’s top law guy is telling states to ignore certain laws. If the Left wants to pick and choose and the corrupt MSM tacitly approve, then others should be free to pick and choose what laws or directives they are inclined to follow, or not.


21 posted on 02/25/2014 6:45:48 AM PST by Obadiah (I Like Ted.)
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To: Qbert

AGs that won’t enforce the law should be jailed. If they don’t like their job, they should resign.


22 posted on 02/25/2014 6:47:08 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Qbert

Are states’ attorneys general also going to be permitted/required to enforce laws that don’t exist but that the US AG thinks would be proper?


23 posted on 02/25/2014 6:47:22 AM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: opres

Let me think... That would be no. Hell no.


24 posted on 02/25/2014 6:52:34 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: Qbert
Since when are the Attorneys General of the sovereign States answerable to comrade Beria Holder?
25 posted on 02/25/2014 6:53:44 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: Qbert

Corruption of the U.S Judicial system of the highest order. He’s not saying State Attorney Generals don’t have to prosecute laws they feel are discriminatory, he’s saying they don’t have to prosecute laws that the Attorney General of the U.S feels is discriminatory.


26 posted on 02/25/2014 7:04:19 AM PST by Usagi_yo (Standardization is an Evolutionary dead end.)
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To: Qbert

islamism


27 posted on 02/25/2014 7:14:04 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Qbert

Obama Administration:
If we don’t like a law nobody has to enforce it.
If we like a law enforcement is mandatory.
If we disagree with a new law we will sue your state.
Kangaroo courts and prison camps to follow.
All we need is a big enough ‘crisis.’


28 posted on 02/25/2014 7:18:40 AM PST by servo1969
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To: Obadiah

I agree.


29 posted on 02/25/2014 7:37:15 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Obadiah

Ignoring Presidential Term Limit is next


30 posted on 02/25/2014 7:58:24 AM PST by molson209 (Hillary Clinton)
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To: Qbert

Holder almost got it right. Drop the words “attorneys general” from the quote, and substitute “unconstitutional” for “discriminatory”


31 posted on 02/25/2014 7:59:46 AM PST by Walrus (America died on November 6, 2012 --- RIP)
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To: Qbert
"...state attorneys general aren’t required to defend laws they consider discriminatory..."

Wow. From the US Attorney General.

Wow.

32 posted on 02/25/2014 8:17:16 AM PST by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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To: Qbert

There a lot of ways to go with this. For instance, State AGs won’t have to defend firearms laws which are unconstitutional. I think Holder might be on to something.


33 posted on 02/25/2014 9:20:54 AM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Qbert

“It’s the law, but you don’t have to follow it...”

Good. Guess who’s going to stop following the NFA...


34 posted on 02/25/2014 9:23:15 AM PST by Dead Corpse (Tre Norner eg ber, binde til rota...)
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To: Obadiah
Then I guess the states do not have to enforce the ObamaCare law either, right? It is apparent that Holder has formally endorsed the reality on the ground, namely that we are now living in a lawless state. From this point on, every GOP gevernor should say, "Following the example of the President and endorsement of the Attorney General, from this point on we will no longer enforce gun restrictions we believe violate the Second Amendment, ..." or fill in the blank. You sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind. This should relieve the Nervous Nellies on our side who caterwaul nonsense about "following the law." There is no law as of this date, so "breaking" the law is a matter of utilitarian consideration, i.e. "Can I get away with it?"
35 posted on 02/25/2014 9:52:15 AM PST by crusher (GREEN: Globaloney for the Gullible)
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To: crusher

Exactly.


36 posted on 02/25/2014 10:11:52 AM PST by Obadiah (I Like Ted.)
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37 posted on 02/25/2014 11:29:01 AM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Qbert
Holder: State Attorneys General Don’t Have to Defend Same-Sex Marriage Bans

Is it racist to make the observation that most individuals on the levers of government today, transforming the US government into a criminal enterprise are black?

From the top down.
The exact reverse of the objectives of the Constitution, which, by sheer accident begins with the words...

WE THE PEOPLE..."

38 posted on 02/25/2014 11:32:08 AM PST by publius911 ( At least Nixon had the good g race to resign!)
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To: Obadiah

TX AG Greg Abbott has fought against 0Care, repeatedly. I guess he, as AG, can decide to just completely ignore any and all 0Care laws for TX. Good. Two can play that game.


39 posted on 02/25/2014 11:34:26 AM PST by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: Qbert

Exactly right...
Gee, Holder, let’s not enforce tax laws, anti-gun laws, EPA sh!t laws, animal abuse laws, hmmmm?
We live in a totalitarian state where the vote and established laws mean nothing...until it hits our door steps (or the press’ news rooms), no one will give a crap.....buy ammo.


40 posted on 02/25/2014 3:12:16 PM PST by matginzac
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