Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood (D) said on Friday that the Supreme Court’s decision upholding same-sex marriage will not be implemented immediately in his state.
Hood said that the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals must first lift its stay on issuing same-sex licenses.
Television station WREG published the statement:
The Supreme Court’s decision is not effective immediately in Mississippi.
It will become effective in Mississippi, and circuit clerks will be required to issue same-sex marriage licenses, when the 5th Circuit lifts the stay of Judge Reeves’ order.
This could come quickly or may take several days.
The 5th Circuit might also choose not to lift the stay and instead issue and order, which could take considerably longer before it becomes effective.
A hissisissippi…
That’s brilliant. So far MS and TX A.G.'s are speaking defiantly, pouting and stomping their feet like little children.
Evidently, those two A.G.'s have never studied the supremacy clause of the Constitution: that is, the law of the land supercedes any state law or contravening court order or stay. Guess they were absent that day in law school when it was taught.
OK Jade Helm MUST start in Misssssspi, then take out TXAG.
Nice hair, jagoff.
Oh, everybody calm the fuck down. Procedurally, he’s absolutely right. The Supreme Court didn’t dissolve the Fifth Circuit’s injunction, it has to lift it itself, and any official who ignores it is subject to being held in contempt of court. There are plenty of cases where people have been punished for ignoring injunctions that were wrongfully entered–entered even without jurisdiction–and the hard-right Fifth Circuit is just the bunch to do it, just out of wingnnut spite.