Late last month, a federal district judge struck down Alabama’s laws prohibiting same sex marriage but stayed the order until today. Gay rights advocates plan to marry beginning at 8 am Central.
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Stephen I. Vladeck , a Professor of Law at the American University Washington College of Law and a CNN analylst says that while Chief Justice Moore is correct that the state probate judges aren’t bound by the district court’s ruling, “he’s wrong, — incomprehensibly so — to suggest that those same judges can follow the Alabama Constitution over and above what those judges believe federal law mandates.”
