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WA: GOP Attorney General Candidate Supports Marriage Equality, Draws Ire

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

Reagan DunnRepublican attorney-general candidate Reagan Dunn is facing a backlash from some GOP leaders and activists over his decision to come out in support of gay marriage.

In the last week, Dunn has been disinvited to big Republican dinners in Whatcom and Franklin counties, and faces a new conservative rival in the attorney-general’s race.

“That’s the name of the game. There has been some blow back,” said Dunn, a Metropolitan King County Council member.

Full Story from the Seattle Times

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WA: Attorney General/Gubernatorial Candidate Wants Voters to Decide on Marriage Equality

Thursday, January 12th, 2012

Washington AG Wants Voters to Decide Marriage EqualityWashington Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob McKenna is responding to Gov. Chris Gregoire’s (D) call for marriage equality by arguing that voters should decide if gay and lesbian people should be allowed to marry.

“This is an issue that every voter is capable of deciding, and they ought to decide it,” McKenna — who supports full legal rights for same-sex couples but says he is “struggling” with marriage — told The Olympian. “I think any change to the law that extends that (domestic partnership) civil rights law to include marriage ought to go to a vote of the people,” he said. “Everyone knows how they feel about it. [It] ought to go to a vote,” he added.

Full Story from Think Progress

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NC: AG Will Defend State Anti Marriage Equality Law in Lawsuit

Sunday, January 1st, 2012

North Carolina Marriage Equality LawsuitThe group rallying support for a state constitutional ban on gay marriage and civil unions sent Attorney General Roy Cooper a letter Thursday asking if he is going to defend a lawsuit that challenges the state’s marriage laws.

The Vote for Marriage NC Referendum Committee asked for Cooper’s answer by Jan. 8. A spokesman for Cooper’s office told Dome on that, yes, they will be defending the suit.

Guilford County Registrar of Deeds Jeff Thigpen, Greensboro ministers and Triad residents filed a suit Dec. 8 challenging state laws that require couples to seek licenses and participate in a marriage ceremony conducted by a magistrate, pastor, priest or rabbi. The suit argues that it is unconstitutional for the state to prevent pastors, priests and rabbis from solemnizing marriages of same-sex couples.

Full Story from the News Observer

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MD: Attorney General Says Marriage Equality Bill Will Pass in 2012

Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

Maryland Gay MarriageMaryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler on Tuesday, Oct. 25, predicted a marriage equality bill will pass in the state Legislature next year.

“This year we’ll pass same-sex marriage,” said Gansler during a speech at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C., that coincided with the release of a new report on the impact of social and legal inequalities on children with LGBT parents.

A marriage equality bill stalled in the House of Delegates earlier this year, but Gansler said the measure is “something we desperately need” because the lack of nuptials for same-sex couples violates due process.

Full Story from Edge Boston

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NY: Attorney General Asks Court to Toss Out Anti Marriage Equality Lawsuit

Friday, September 16th, 2011

New York Gay Marriage LawsuitNew York’s attorney general asked a state court on Friday to throw out a lawsuit challenging the gay marriage law signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in June.

New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms and several other opponents of the law sued on July 25, claiming in part that the law should be nullified because the state Senate violated its own rules and the state’s open meetings law before the critical vote that led to its narrow passage.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman argued in papers filed Friday that the opponents haven’t been harmed by the law, don’t have standing to challenge the actions of the Senate and any procedural actions of the Senate and governor aren’t subject to judicial review. He has asked for a hearing on Oct. 17 at the Livingston County Courthouse.

Full Story from Wall Street Journal

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NY: Attorney General Joins DOMA Fight

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

New York Attorney General Eric SchneidermanNew York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has filed briefs in the Edie Windsor lawsuit challenging the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Writes the AG’s office in a press release:

Schneiderman filed the papers in federal court in support of the plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment in the case of Windsor v. United States. The plaintiff, Edie Windsor, was married in Canada in 2007 to her partner, Thea Spyer, who died two years later.

Following Spyer’s death, the federal government refused to acknowledge the couple’s marriage under DOMA and taxed the resulting inheritance accordingly. Windsor then filed suit, challenging the constitutionality of DOMA and seeking a refund of the estate taxes she was forced to pay as a result of the federal government’s refusal to recognize her marriage.

Full Story from Towleroad.com

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GA: Attorney General Rebukes King and Spalding for Dropping DOMA Defense

Thursday, May 5th, 2011

GA AG Sam OlensGeorgia’s top attorney has rebuked an Atlanta law firm for withdrawing from its agreement to defend the federal ban on gay marriage.

Attorney General Sam Olens told the Glynn County Bar Association this week that the move by King & Spalding “sets a dangerous precedent and could have a chilling effect on law firms.”

He also noted that the same firm represented detainees at the military’s Guantanamo Bay complex.

Full Story from NewsTimes.com

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CA: AG Harris Files Brief: Prop 8 Supporters Have No Standing

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

Kamala HarrisIn another move in the seemingly unending Prop 8 battle, California Attorney General Kamala Harris has filed a brief declaring that private citizens do not have standing to defend the statute in court.

In it, she argued that only public officials exercising the executive power of government have authority to represent the state when laws passed by voters or the Legislature are challenged. “California law affords an initiative’s proponents no right to defend the validity of a successful initiative measure based only on their role in launching an initiative process,” Harris wrote.

[snip] Lawyers for the coalition of religious and conservative groups that qualified the gay marriage measure for the ballot and campaigned for its passage have argued that initiative proponents need to be allowed to advocate for laws in court to prevent elected officials from effectively vetoing measures by not defending them in court.

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VA: AG to Block Proposed Anti Discrimination Regulation for Gay Adoptions

Friday, April 15th, 2011

Ken CuccinelliVirginia Attorney General Ken Cucinelli has announced that he will block a proposed regulation banning religious discrimination against adoptive gay parents.

Cuccinelli’s office said in a memo dated Tuesday that the proposal to be considered by the State Board of Social Services as early as next week “does not comport with applicable state law and public policy.” “Therefore the State Board lacks the authority to adopt this proposed language,” wrote Allen Wilson, senior assistant attorney general.

Cuccinelli’s position reverses one of his predecessor, William C. Mims, a former Republican legislator and now a Virginia Supreme Court justice. Currently, only married couples and single men and women — regardless of sexual orientation — can adopt in Virginia. Proposed changes would require private and faith-based groups, such as Catholic Charities or Jewish Family Services, to allow gay parents to adopt or foster children.

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CA: Marriage Equality Opponents Push Bill to Force AG To Defend Ballot Propositions

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

As the California Supreme Court announced that it will weigh in on the issue of whether a group of anti-gay-marriage activists can defend Proposition 8 in court, Republican State Senator Tom Harman has introduced a new bill that would apparently ensure that such a question would never have to be decided again.

Under Senate Bill 5, or the “Attorney General: defense of initiative statutes” bill, Attorney General Kamala Harris would be obligated by law to defend the same-sex marriage ban in court-something both she and her predecessor, now-Governor Jerry Brown have famously refused to do. The text of the bill reads:

The Attorney General shall not refuse to defend a constitutional amendment or an initiative statute on the basis of it being unconstitutional, or in conflict with, or in violation of federal law or regulation, unless an appellate court has made a determination that the amendment or statute is unconstitutional or otherwise in conflict with, or in violation of, federal law or regulation.

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