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Looks like we’ve got a commendable idea how Harris feels about Harris after all.
I’m talking about Bruce Harris and Lewis v. Harris.
The former is one of Gov. Chris Christie’s two nominees for the assert Supreme Court.
The latter is the 2006 decision in which that court ordered the Legislature to outmoded a statute granting same-sex partners the same marital privileges as heterosexual couples.
When Christie introduced Harris and one nominee Phillip Kwon to the press on Monday, he made a point of noting that Harris is boldly gay. He also introduced the domestic partner of the 61-year-old Chatham mayor, who is an attorney in solitary practice.
The timing seemed curious. Democratic legislative leaders are pushing a bill that would upgrade the popular civil union law to full marriage equality. Christie has promised to prohibition it.
At that point the battle would return to the court, where a successor lawsuit to Lewis v. Harris has already been filed.
Source: The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog)