Friday, August 24, 2012

AFER asks US Supreme Court to not accept Prop 8 appeal by opponents


The American Foundation for Equal Rights says the Supreme Court should decline the review the overturn of Proposition 8. Today the American Foundation for Equal Rights filed a brief in opposition to Protect Marriage's demand to have their Prop 8 appeal heard. From Chris Geidner:
The case challenging the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 is "an attractive vehicle" for determining "whether the States may discriminate against gay men and lesbians in the provision of marriage licenses" — but the Supreme Court should pass on the case, lawyers challenging the law say, and let stand an appeals court ruling that strikes down the 2008 amendment on narrow grounds.

If the Supreme Court takes the advice of Ted Olson, David Boies and the other lawyers representing the plaintiffs in Perry v. Brown, then Proposition 8 would remain unconstitutional, as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held, and same-sex couples in California would regain the right to marry that they had been able to exercise briefly in 2008.
Two lower courts have struck down the 2008 ban known as Proposition 8, and last month backers of the measure asked the Supreme Court to step in.

Four DOMA-related cases are also up for Supreme Court consideration.

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