{"id":5867,"date":"2013-07-19T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5867"},"modified":"2013-07-18T13:07:30","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T18:07:30","slug":"attorney-generals-are-not-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5867","title":{"rendered":"Attorney Generals Are Not Judges"},"content":{"rendered":"

[This is part of the script from the latest episode of my podcast, "Consider This!"<\/a>]<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court said that the people of California have no standing to defend a constitutional amendment that they passed if the state won’t defend it. It’s now open season on laws that state administrations don’t like. Exhibit A.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Pennsylvania attorney general Kathleen Kane announced Thursday afternoon she will not defend the state in a federal lawsuit filed this week challenging the constitutionality of the state\u2019s ban on same-sex marriage, calling the prohibition \u201cwholly unconstitutional.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Who promoted her to judge? Whether or not it\u2019s unconstitutional is not her call to make. The Attorney General represents the state and defends its laws; all<\/i> of the state and all<\/i> of its laws. <\/p>\n

If a state Attorney General refuses to defend those laws, that\u2019s an abdication of his or her primary responsibility; their oath of office. AGs do not<\/i> (or at least should <\/i>not) have this prerogative. Otherwise you\u2019ll have one set of laws when one administration is in power, and another set for another administration. <\/p>\n

The Supreme Court said that they\u2019re leaving it up to the states to decide what marriage is. But are we leaving it up to the state governments<\/i> or to the state’s people<\/i>? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This is part of the script from the latest episode of my podcast, "Consider This!"] The Supreme Court said that the people of California have no standing to defend a constitutional amendment that they passed if the state won’t defend it. It’s now open season on laws that state administrations don’t like. Exhibit A. Pennsylvania […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[940,9,18,20,245,939],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consider-this","category-doug","category-government","category-judiciary","category-marriage","category-podcasts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}