Republican state attorneys general on Tuesday slammed comments from Attorney General Eric Holder that state officials don’t have to defend their states’ same-sex marriage bans, calling them “inappropriate.”
The Republican Attorneys General Association seized on the comments, made by Holder in a New York Times interview published Monday, in which he said when it comes to defending same-sex marriage bans in court, “Engaging in that process and making that determination is something that’s appropriate for an attorney general to do.”
“The approach is as inappropriate as it is unprecedented, ” Montana Attorney General Tim Fox said in a statement put out by the RAGA. “What General Holder is asking state attorneys general to do is accept a gratuitously offered nonbinding legal opinion on an issue that has not been decided by a national court of competent jurisdiction at this time.”
