The Supreme Court has put same-sex marriages on hold in Utah while a federal appeals court considers the issue. The court has issued a brief order blocking any new same-sex unions in the state.
More than 900 gay and lesbian couples have married since Dec. 20, when a federal judge ruled that Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage violates gay and lesbian couples’ constitutional rights.
Adam Liptak, Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times, joins Here & Now’s Meghna Chakrabarti with details. Read his piece in The New York Times here.
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- Adam Liptak, Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times. He tweets @adamliptak.
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