Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore again advises probate judges they are not bound by same-sex ruling

Feb. 3, 2015
By Mike Cason

Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has written an advisory letter and memorandum to the state's probate judges saying that they are not required to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples despite the court ruling striking down the state's ban on same-sex marriages.

Moore's letter, dated today, repeats the earlier assertion he made -- that state courts are not bound by federal district courts or federal appeals courts on questions of federal constitutional law.

"Interference with the right of state courts to make independent judgments based on their own view of the U.S. Constitution is a violation of state sovereignty," Moore wrote in the four-page letter.

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