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Trump: I’d Appoint Judges To Overturn Gay Marriage

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By Nathan James

On the eve of the Iowa caucuses, Donald Trump, the front-running Republican presidential candidate, said he would appoint Supreme Court judges who would overturn last summer’s historic decision making same-sex marriage legal nationwide, during a Fox News Live interview earlier Sunday. “It has been ruled upon. It has been there. If I’m elected, I would be very strong in putting certain judges on the bench that maybe could change things, but they have a long way to go,” Trump told host Chris Wallace. “I disagree with the court in that it should have been a states’ rights issue.”

When Wallace asked the New York real-estate developer and reality-TV star if he was specifically referring to reversing the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges case, Trump conformed, “I would strongly consider that, yes”.

Republican presidential candidate, real estate mogul Donald Trump, waves after speaking at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, Saturday, July 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Republican presidential candidate, real estate mogul Donald Trump, waves after speaking at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, Saturday, July 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Although Trump had declared the case a “dead issue” as settled law last year, political analysts see Trump’s shift on the issue as a response to an endorsement of rival Ted Cruz by the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage (NOM).

The group’s president, Brian Brown, released a statement supporting Cruz, saying, “The incontrovertible record demonstrates that Ted Cruz will be a champion for marriage while Donald Trump has abandoned the fight to preserve marriage as the union of one man and one woman.”

Trump, who, according to a Des Moines register poll, is leading the other GOP candidates by a narrow 5 point margin, is seen as trying to shore up his conservative credentials, says Sheldon Green, an LGBT legal analyst. “Trump has to appeal to his base,” Green observed, “and in the Midwestern Corn Belt, gay marriage is still a hot-button issue.”

Trump is also battling back against the New York Times, which yesterday endorsed John Kasich, the Republican Governor of Ohio, as the “only plausible choice in a pack of extremists”, while lambasting Trump as “[inventing] his positions as he goes along”. The mogul is also “campaigning hard” in New Hampshire, ahead of that state’s Feb 9 primaries, on a similar hard-right platform.

Trump’s campaign offices in Concord reiterated their candidate’s sometimes vague policy platform, including his new pledge to overturn Hodges. “Donald Trump is a man to whom Americans can turn, to restore their time-honored values and traditions,” the office stated.

Trump enjoys a slight lead in the New England state, whose voters have gone with every winning Presidential candidate since FDR. Iowa polling, meanwhile, starts tomorrow at 8 AM.


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