*In a bodacious act of defiance, the Alabama Supreme Court has ordered all of the state’s probate judges to cease the issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples. This is the latest in what appears to be a growing legal battle being fought in Alabama over whose decisions will trump the others’: decisions made by federal justices or those made by state judges.
In the meantime, peoples’ lives hang in the balance.
The clash of federal versus state rights doesn’t start and stop in Alabama though, all across the nation states opposed to same-sex marriage attempt to block federal court decisions throwing out gay marriage bans.
 In Alabama, state and federal judges have been playing a focused game of ping-pong with the issue, and the Supreme Court recently refused to block a U.S. District Court judge’s ruling — which allowed gay marriage to begin there.
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