Kane to Corbett: Don’t tell me what to do on enforcement of gay marriage ban

PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE: …“It is not your job to tell the Office of Attorney General — an independent agency — what its duties and obligations are,” Kane’s first deputy, Adrian King, told Corbett’s general counsel, James Schultz, in the letter.

The dispute concerns Kane’s refusal to defend Pennsylvania’s 1996 law banning same-sex marriage because she says it is unconstitutional…

Kane said she delegated defense of a lawsuit seeking to overturn the marriage ban to Corbett’s office, as allowed under the Commonwealth Attorneys Act… (more)

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