The Alabama showdown between a federal district judge who
struck down Alabama's same-sex marriage ban in January and the state's antigay chief justice, Roy Moore, who
circumvented her order, isn't over. U.S. District Court Judge Callie Granade ordered Thursday that state officials stop enforcing the ban statewide, though she immediately stayed the ruling pending the outcome of the Supreme Court's marriage cases. Chris Geidner
reports:
In a series of orders, Granade first granted a request to expand a marriage case that had covered one county statewide to all probate judges, who are responsible for the issuance of marriage licenses in the state.
She then went on to declare the marriage ban unconstitutional, yet again and issue an injunction stopping state officials from “enforcing the Alabama laws which prohibit or fail to recognize same-sex marriage.”