New Ammendment: From this day forth, legal fees incurred during challenges to legislation action shall be funded by the same people that funded that legislation.
Alan Evil wrote:So in other words these State Constitutional amendments were all a complete and utter waste of time, money, and will waste even more time and money over the next few years?
Pretty much. Assuming that is, that the courts will deem them unconstitutional.
And here's what could also affect it - Challenges to the constitutionality of the state amendments must be filed in federal court. The president nominates federal judges (for empty seats) for approval by the Senate. This applies to any federal court without a judge from the district courts all the way to the Supreme Court. If a conservative judge (or 2 or 3) is one of the members of the panel deciding an appeal or the Supreme Court is stacked with conservative judges, the chances of getting rid of the anti-gay marriage amendments (or upholding various other civil rights) diminishes. There is no question that the amendments are unconstitutional, but getting a court to rule that way is another ball park. The marriage issue was on the ballot to get out the evangelical vote since that group of the population did not historically vote in large numbers.
