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Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 January 2009 12:35 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 6 January 2009 11:56
Encouraging courts to invalidate the will of voters is about the most undemocratic thing an elected official could do. From SF Gate:
State Attorney General Jerry Brown was “profoundly wrong” and “invented an entirely new theory” when he urged the California Supreme Court to invalidate Proposition 8’s same-sex marriage ban on the basis that voters can’t be allowed to overturn fundamental liberties, attorneys for the measure said Monday.
Brown’s reasoning would confer upon the state Supreme Court power it has never had, attorneys Kenneth Starr and Andrew Pugno said in their response to the attorney general’s December brief.
Brown “is inviting this court to declare a constitutional revolution,” the attorneys argued in the 29-page response.