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?Judge doubts gay marriage ban?s backers can appeal? ? Dale Carpenter comments

By Alliance Alert

The Raw Story: "'We are confident we do have standing to seek the appellate review here, and we realize this case has just begun and we will get the decision overturned on appeal,' said [Jim Campbell], an Alliance Defense Fund lawyer who is part of the legal team defending Proposition 8 . . . 'What Judge Walker's ruling means is you can sponsor a proposition, direct it, research it, work for it, raise $40 million for it, get it on a ballot, successfully campaign for it and then have no ability to defend it independently in court,' said Dale Carpenter, a University of Minnesota constitutional law professor who supports same-sex marriage. 'And then a judge maybe let you be the sole defender in a full-blown trial and then says, "by the way, you never can defend this." It just seems very unlikely to me the higher courts will buy that.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 13, 2010 (boomark / email).