Utah is trying desperately to fight the words of the constitution that forbids marriage discrimination against sam sex couples.
They want to fight so badly that the state will use $2 million tax dollars to do so. The states attorney general says he hill hire outside lawyers to uphold their discriminatory marriage laws.
Utah House Speaker Becky Lockhart (R) and Senate President Wayne Niederhauser (R) both think $2 million is a appropriate amount to spend on the legal battle. This is the typical price range for trying to keep inequality alive. In 2011 the U.S. House Republicans hired attorney Paul Clement to uphold the Defense of Marriage Act, an act that is completely unconstitutional. Taxpayers paid $2.3 million dollars for that trial.
The trial is the most expensive part of litigation and it has been decided already that Utah’s outside council will head to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and probably the Supreme Court. The money spent on this could be spent on so many better things for the state.