Angry that the ninth circuit court didn’t wait the full 25 days to lift the stay on same sex weddings in California, Protect Marriage asked for an injunction from Supreme Court Justice Antonin Kennedy. Yesterday morning, they got their answer. The Los Angeles Times reports:
The Supreme Court rejected an emergency request to stop same-sex marriages in California, a lawyer for the gay couples who sued said Sunday. Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., one of the lawyers who challenged Proposition 8, said that he had just received word from the court Sunday morning that Justice Anthony M. Kennedy denied a request by ProtectMarriage, the sponsors of Proposition 8, to halt the marriages. Boutrous said that Kennedy, who handles petitions from the Western states, did not comment on the decision.
They could still petition another Justice – it would be amusing to see them try each one and get rejected nine times…
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