Meaning Mississippi must issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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Despite the ruling, some Alabama probate judges, citing a contradictory Alabama Supreme Court decision, have refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples.
Ahead of a town hall event in Iowa, Jindal’s Believe Again political action committee encouraged people to ask the presidential candidate questions on Twitter with the #AskBobby hashtag, and the move backfired. “The real issue is that while the American people will never see these emails, it is likely that the Russians and the Chinese already have all of them”.
During a tour of The Center in Council Bluffs, Jindal says his track record in Louisiana speaks for itself. But, so far the county’s clerk Katie Lang is holding up the process.
While the Fifth Circuit condones “engag[ing] those who disagree with their view in an open and searching debate”, it also expressly admonished “actors within the jurisdiction of this court” that its ruling “should not be taken lightly” by them. The state is now issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Nearly a week after the US Supreme Court ruled on the constitutionality of marriage equality, Louisiana officials on Thursday stopped enforcing the state’s same-sex marriage ban and started issuing licenses. The appeals court told US District Judge Martin Feldman in New Orleans that he, in particular, needed to hurry because of the declining health of one of the Louisiana plaintiffs, Robert Welles.
The governor and attorney general’s office barred media from their meetings with the clerks.
When a religious freedom bill died in the Louisiana Legislature in May after criticism that it could sanction discrimination against gays and lesbians, Jindal immediately released a statement saying he would institute the language through an executive order, which he later did.
“Our agencies will follow the Louisiana Constitution until the District Court orders us otherwise”, said Gov. Jindal’s spokesman, Mike Reed. “We need to get off that path otherwise Puerto Rico, Greece are going to be our future”. “We will work with families”, she said. They say they will join most other counties and issue licenses. “I don’t know why anybody would get in the race for president unless they were getting in it to win it”. The judge, who previously overturned the state’s ban on same-sex marriage, put earlier decisions on hold to allow time for the justices to rule.
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