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<\/center><\/p>\nThe conservative<\/i> victories<\/a> in favor of the Constitution and equal rights for all continue, as the Reagan\/Bush I-appointed U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker has just ruled<\/b><\/a> that same-sex marriages in California may resume once again as of 5pm PDT, August 18th.<\/p>\n Opponents of equality have until then to appeal the decision at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n Walker’s ruling today follows his recent ruling<\/a> which found that the state’s Prop 8 constitutional amendment banning such marriages is in violation of the U.S. Constitution’s equal protection and due process clauses.<\/p>\n • The court’s 11-page ruling, lifting his temporary stay, is now here [PDF]<\/a>. The conservative victories in favor of the Constitution and equal rights for all continue, as the Reagan\/Bush I-appointed U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker has just ruled that same-sex marriages in California may resume once again as of 5pm PDT, August 18th. Opponents of equality have until then to appeal the decision at the 9th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[405,21,309,332,126,127],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bush-legacy","category-california","category-gay-marriage","category-lgbt","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-the-constitution","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7983"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n• CNN coverage<\/a>
\n• MSNBC coverage<\/a>
\n• Fox “News” coverage<\/a> (emphasizing possibility of appeal)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"