Pulling no punches, a federal judge has tossed out a register of wills’s attempt to intervene in the case that saw Pennsylvania’s ban on same-sex marriages ruled unconstitutional, calling it a “contrived legal argument.”
Theresa Santai-Gaffney, the Schuylkill County clerk of Orphans’ Court and register of wills, had filed a motion to intervene in Whitewood v. Wolf, the case in which U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III of the Middle District of Pennsylvania declared Pennsylvania’s ban on same-sex marriages was unconstitutional and that the law should be discarded to “the ash heap of history.” Shortly after Jones struck down the law, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett announced that he would not appeal the decision.
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