A federal judge has reportedly just told the acting Attorney General of Utah that his request for an emergency states will not even be decided for several days. So much for an “emergency.”
Around 2:00 PM local time, a federal judge ruled Utah’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage is not constitutional, and ordered it to be stricken immediately.
And immediately, hundreds of same-sex couples lined up and were married.
The Republican governor and his acting AG (the actual AG resigned amid scandal last month) almost immediately announced they would fight the federal judge’s ruling. They have already filed a notice of appeal, and announced they were seeking an emergency stay — a hold — on the ruling, which would force a stop of all same-sex weddings.
But that “emergency” stay will take a while. The Boston Globe just reported that “Ryan Bruckman, a spokesman for the attorney general’s office…said the judge told the attorney general’s office that it would be a couple of days before he would review any request for an emergency stay.”
Shucks.
And with Christmas in the middle of the week next week, well, who knows how many thousands of same-sex couples will be on their honeymoons by New Year’s…
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