From the OC Weekly:
Charles Smith had wanted a big church wedding at the end of October 2008, but because of the threat posed by Prop 8, the UC Irvine political science professor and his future husband tied the knot the previous July 3 in the Old County Courthouse in Santa Ana. California voters did not ban same-sex marriages until early November '08, but Smith worried bureaucratic delays might nullify a marriage held so close to election day. It's one reason he joined the legal fights that resulted in today's U.S. Supreme Court rulings. Smith, who specializes in law and legal institutions and comparative and international law at UCI, was among 14 political science professors from around the country who filed amicus briefs with the high court on Prop 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)… ''Under the guise of states' rights they're trampling on states' rights," Smith tells the news service. "As [Justice Anthony] Kennedy points out in his dissent, it's really problematic if the governor and attorney general choose not to defend an initiative and nobody else can. It really undermines the initiative process in a profound way. ... From a federalist standpoint, I don't think they want that outcome, but I think [Chief Justice John] Roberts was stuck in a difficult position."

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