Civil Rights
Block on Trump's Asylum Ban Upheld by Supreme Court
The California Supreme Court today ruled that the state's failure to designate the official relationship of same-sex couples as marriage violates the California Constitution, effectively rejecting the state's ban on same-sex marriage.
In today's 4-3 decision -- a consolidation of six different appeals -- the court concluded that the "domestic partnership" designation is not sufficient, and that "to the extent the current California statutory provisions limit marriage to opposite-sex couples, these statutes are unconstitutional." The decision comes more than four years after the city of San Francisco issued about 4,000 marriage licenses to same-sex couples, a move the state's high court halted before declaring that San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom could not sidestep state marriage laws. The validity of California's marriage laws -- specifically, the constitutionality of limiting the definition of marriage to a union between a man and a woman -- was the subject of a number of lower court decisions before today's ruling by the California Supreme Court.
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