against roy moore back in 2003 that resulted in him being thrown out of office for defying a federal court order at that time. unfortunately the people of alabama saw fit to reelect them. now he s up to the same thing. it s not up to us if he gets thrown out of office. we just file our complaints. i think that the alabama officials hopefully have had enough of him. and will finally act to remove him once again. alabama chief justice s order says alabama probate judges from a duty to enforce the same sex marriage ban, but your point is he violates a federal court order. what should the federal court be doing about this? well, i believe that most of the probate judges will ignore what judge moore said. if they don t, we ll take them to court and sanction them. and we may bring roy moore into court as well.
struggling to finish it by the end of his tour. there is no widespread spying of nsa. it comes 18 months after the agent charged was embroiled in a prostitution scandal in south africa in advance of a presidential visit. a federal judge has struck down utah s same sex marriage ban. the mormon church there has long been against the same sex marriage ban. the judge s ruling said the law passed by voters in 2004 violated gay and lesbian couples rights under the 14th amendment. the salt lake county clerk has already started to issue marriage licenses. we will start the panel a little sooner than usual tonight to get reaction to the president s news conference and all that was in it. up next. what pajama boy said about obama before he became famous. [ male announcer ] e new new york is open.
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shepard: the lawyers on either side of california s same sex marriage debate squaring off in a federal appeals court today. you ll remember earlier this year a federal judge ruled that the state s voter approved proposition 8 violates the united states constitution. specifically the equal protection clause because it defines a marriage as a union between a man and a woman. well, prop 8 supporters have since appealed that ruling. and today the appeals court heard arguments on whether the same sex marriage ban itself ghits amounts to discrimination and whether supporters of the ban even have the legal standing to apeel. trace gallagher with the news. is he live in our los angeles newsroom this afternoon and, trace, if those against gay marriage don t have the right to appeal, that ends this case, right? it does, shep, because, remember, those who filed this appeal one was a deputy court clerk in imperial county east of san diego along with the
happening this hour, another round in the battle over california s same sex marriage ban. governor arnold schwarzenegger says the state should allow gay weddings again now that a judge has overturned the law. claudia cowan live in san francisco. claudia, that ruling is still on hold for now from the judge, right? that s right, but a lot of legal motions were filed just within the last couple of hours. california governor arnold schwarzenegger and attorney general jerry browne filing motions calling for same sex weddings to resume just as soon as possible and it s a bit ironic when you think about it because the name of this case is perry vs. schwarzenegger and here we have the governor now clearly siding with the plaintiffs in this case. schwarzenegger said that resuming gay marriages here in california is consistent with