You can take your ruling and shove it.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is clinging to his crusade against marriage equality just like he's clinging to his doomed presidential bid for dear life. It's not enough for him that the U.S. Supreme Court and
5th Circuit Court of Appeals have now overturned Louisiana's marriage ban, he's waiting for the lowest court—the federal district court—to weigh in before conceding that the state will have to recognize same-sex marriages. Tierney Sneed has
the details:
"Our agencies will follow the Louisiana Constitution until the District Court orders us otherwise," Mike Reed, a spokesman in the governor's office, said.
Hmm. Didn't you say just last Friday, Mr. Reed, that you would have "
no choice" once the 5th Circuit ruled?
"Our agencies will have no choice but to comply with the Supreme Court's decision when the 5th Circuit Court orders the ruling into effect – even though we disagree with it and believe it was wrongly decided, and has nothing to do with the Constitution," said Mike Reed, Jindal's spokesman in the governor's office.
Sorry, guys, that ship has sailed.
Meanwhile, same-sex marriages are commencing in all but two of Louisiana's 64 counties.
If only we could get the 5th Circuit to weigh in on Jindal's presidential run now.
10:06 AM PT: Jindal's toast now, the federal district court has ruled, reports Chris Geidner: "U.S. District Court Judge Martin Feldman, overseeing the Louisiana marriage challenge, issued judgment in the case—ordering that the marriage ban is unenforceable and that his prior decision upholding the ban be 'recalled and rescinded.'"