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California Attorney General Jerry Brown, who is responsible for defending the state’s laws and constitution from challenges, is urging the state Supreme Court to toss a voter-approved definition of marriage that now is part of the state constitution.

In a new statement on the dispute over Proposition 8, through which voters in November approved limiting marriage to one man and one woman, Brown said the vote must be “invalidated.”

The statement drew a stunned reaction from Brad Dacus, whose Pacific Justice Institute is working on friend-of-the-court briefs in the case. Dacus said Brown originally pledged to defend Proposition 8 “in accordance with his constitutional duty.”

However, Brown’s 111-page brief to the court now asks that the voters’ will be overturned, because he believes a general guarantee of “the inalienable right of liberty” trumps all other provisions in the constitution…

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