It took less than 5 minutes today for the state’s Constitutional Defense Council – which consists of the governor, the Attorney General, the speaker of the House and the president pro-tem of the Senate – to vote unanimously to pay the state’s latest bill for attorney fees and costs for the other side in a court case the state lost. In this case, it was the case of Madelynn Lee Taylor, a Navy veteran who sued after the state Veterans Cemetery initially refused to allow her to be interred there with the ashes of her late wife, Jean Mixner, citing the state’s then-ban on same-sex marriage. “This is a legitimate claim against the state,” Attorney General Lawrence Wasden said. “The court has found against the state. It’s a proper expense for the Constitutional Defenses Fund”/Betsy Russell, SR. More here.

Question: Are you beginning to see a pattern here?