The State of Alaska today filed an emergency appeal to block same-sex marriage, just as clerks began issuing licenses.
For the first time ever, and 18 years after passing the nation’s first ban on same-sex marriage, clerks in the state of Alaska today began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. There is a three-day waiting period in the Land of the Midnight Sun, and Republican Attorney General Michael Geraghty this afternoon took full advantage of that fact.
Claiming both “a reasonable likelihood” an en banc panel of the Ninth Circuit will rehear Latta v. Otter, the case that just brought marriage equality to Alaska, AG Michael Geraghty this afternoon filed an emergency request for a stay of Sunday’s same-sex marriage ruling.
Geraghty, who also announced he will appeal the ruling that extends marriage to same-sex couples, also claims there is “a reasonable likelihood” the U.S. Supreme Court will take up a same-sex marriage case after a split at the circuit court level that would “develop in the very near future.”
In his emergency request, Geraghty claims the 9th Circuit Court “should stay its decision to avoid chaos in the administration of Alaska’s marriage laws pending ultimate resolution of this fundamental issue.”
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Hat tip: AP
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