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“I share your view that the effective administration of our legal system requires zealous advocacy on all matters before the courts. In the present case, Virginia’s same-sex marriage ban is being vigorously and appropriately defended by the Clerk of Court for the City of Norfolk and the Clerk of Court for Prince William County. Accordingly, I respectfully decline to appoint …

Last week Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring announced that he would not defend his state against marriage equality lawsuits and would join the suit filed by AFER. That prompted AFER to call for an immediate summary judgement. But the judge today scheduled opening arguments for Thursday. Here’s her order, via Buzzfeed: NOTE — the Court sets the following Order of …

This asshat has introduced a bill that he claims would give standing to any state legislator that wants to “defend natural marriage.” Because Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring has violated his “oath before God.”

Via press release from AFER: The American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), the sole sponsor of Bostic v. Rainey, the federal constitutional challenge to Virginia’s discriminatory Marriage Amendment, issued the following statement regarding U.S. District Court Judge Arenda L. Wright Allen’s order seeking Status Reports from all parties in the case regarding whether oral argument on the issues presented is …

The Virginia Catholic Conference has posted a joint statement from Arlington Bishop Paul Loverde (photo) and Richmond Bishop Francis DiLorenzo: “Virginia voters put this provision in the Constitution, and no politician should be able to reverse the people’s decision. We call on the Attorney General to do the job he was elected to perform, which is to defend the state …

“The Attorney General swore an oath that he would ‘support…the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Virginia’ and faithfully discharge his duties, which include defending duly enacted laws like the state’s marriage amendment. Yet now Attorney General Herring is participating in a lawsuit against the very people he is sworn to represent, the citizens of Virginia who preserved marriage in their …

“Someone should have handed Virginia’s new Attorney General a job description before he was sworn in. With barely a month under his belt, the radical liberal seems to be completely confused about his role as the state’s chief law enforcer. Despite his campaign promises on same-sex ‘marriage,’ the new AG is obviously taking lessons in lawlessness from President Obama, whose …

Fox News says that Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring is “throwing out” the Tenth Amendment. They are VERY UPSET. Snork!

Watch this. Watch the entire thing.

The Cooch was a liberal!

“The decision by the attorney general is not surprising, but it is disappointing and frightening. It’s disappointing that he wouldn’t be clear about his intentions on this issue while campaigning for the office. More importantly, it’s frightening that politicians like the attorney general feel that they can pick and choose which aspects of the Constitution they deem worth to defend …

Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring, who won election in November by a 0.04% margin, will join Prop 8 victors Ted Olson and David Boies in their bid to strike down his state’s ban on gay marriage. The action will mark a stunning reversal in the state’s legal position on same-sex marriage and is a result of November elections in which …