Federal Judge to Hear Arguments Thursday on Alabama Same-Sex Marriages

[FLPanhandle]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/11/us/alabama-gay-marriage-advocates-renew-legal-push-for-licenses.html

MOBILE, Ala., — A federal judge will hear arguments Thursday on whether to order local officials here to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, as some Alabama counties granted the licenses for a second day, but most continued to refuse.

Late Monday, gay rights advocates asked Judge Callie V.S. Granade of Federal District Court in Mobile to direct the probate judge here, Don Davis, to issue the licenses. The state’s second-most populous county, Mobile was by far the largest where officials refused to issue licenses to anyone on Monday.

The state attorney general, Luther Strange, filed a response Tuesday morning, opposing the request.

The county Probate Court judges who issue the licenses have been caught in an unusual power struggle between state and federal jurists, sowing confusion as to how to proceed — confusion that now appears set to persist at least until Thursday’s hearing.



No way a federal judge is going to side with Moore as a state judge.

[hifiguy]

1. There shouldn't be any "confusion".

When a federal court issues an order, state authorities must either obey the terms of the order or open themselves to being held in contempt of court.

That is hornbook law.