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Holder is talking about laws that ban same-sex marriage but what about affirmative action and anti-gun laws. Many conservatives think those laws are unconstitutional.
Eric Holder: State AGs Don't Have to Defend Gay Marriage Bans | TIME.com
Feb. 24, 2014
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a New York Times interview published Monday that state attorneys general arent required to defend laws they consider discriminatory, including bans on same-sex marriage.
Holder said that state attorneys general should carefully analyze laws that raise major constitutional issues before deciding whether to defend them.
Engaging in that process and making that determination is something thats appropriate for an attorney general to do, Holder told the Times.
To make his case, Holder said that if he were an attorney general in Kansas in 1953, he would not have defended a Kansas statute that put in place separate-but-equal facilities.
Six state attorneys general have decided against defending their states same-sex marriage bans from challenges, inviting criticism from those who argue an attorney generals job is to defend their respective states laws regardless of their personal attitudes towards those laws.