In front of the illuminated pillars of the Supreme Court Building, the Rev. Patrick Mahoney and several other Christian activists are gathered together, waiting for President Donald Trump to announce his pick for U.S. Supreme Court justice – a seat left vacant for nearly a year after Republicans refused to acknowledge President Barack Obama’s nominee.
Category: Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals
Supreme Court declines to review Utah anti-bigamy statute
They were challenging the constitutionality of a little-used Utah statute that says bigamy is a third degree felony. They claimed the statute “infringed their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights,” and sought a permanent injunction against the state of Utah preventing enforcement of the law.