Republican attorney general candidate says he’d defend interracial marriage ban

[KamaAina]

http://www.salon.com/2014/10/09/republican_attorney_general_candidate_says_hed_defend_interracial_marriage_ban/

The Republican nominee for attorney general of Wisconsin has said that he would have defended a ban on interracial marriage in court.

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported Thursday that Democrats in the state are taking GOP candidate Brad Schimel to task for the statement, which he made in an interview with an Oshkosh cable access station in September.

Noting that Schimel had vowed to defend Wisconsin’s same-sex marriage ban in court, the host asked him if he’d have done the same with respect to an interracial marriage ban in the 1950s....

“Yeah, it is,” Schimel replied. Schimel went on to say that defending such a law might be distasteful to me,” but “I’ve got to stay consistent with that. As the state’s lawyer, it’s not my job to pick and choose.”

[SheilaT]

1. That's a lot of what's wrong with our legal system.

That an AG would feel bound to defend a law he thinks is a bad one isn't a good thing, in my opinion.

The article does not indicate where this guy actually stands of the issue of gay marriage or the issue of interracial marriage, but I'm guessing he's opposed to the first one now, and had he been around in the 1950's, would have opposed the second.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. The fact is, prosecutors decide every day which laws to enforce

& what to let slide.

[Scuba]

3. Another reason I'm voting for Susan Happ. Here's more ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/108412832