Atty Gen. Jerry Brown asking California Court to invalidate Prop 8 [video]
“There are certain rights that are not to be subject to popular votes, otherwise they are not fundamental rights. If every fundamental liberty can be stripped away by a majority vote, then it’s not a fundamental liberty…. It’s unusual, but it happens. Existing laws include the whole of the constitution, and just as Attorney General Lynch filed a brief calling for the invalidation of Proposition 14, we’re filing a brief here calling for the invalidation of Proposition 8.”
Governor Jerry Brown during his announcement that he is filing a brief with the California State Supreme Court asking that Proposition 8 should be stuck down — invalidated on the grounds that the approved amendment is unconstitutional and has not “compelling interest.” Earlier he had be expected to file in support of Proposition 8, saying that it was required of him to defend the law that stripped gay men and lesbians of the right to have legal same-sex weddings. (San Jose Mercury News)
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