Idaho lawmakers are introducing a flurry of legislation this session, including a memorial asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow states to make their own decisions over how marriage should be defined.
The memorial isn’t a bill and doesn’t hold the weight of a law, but many may not be aware that Idaho has a trigger ban tucked into its constitution that says if federal protections were ever removed for same-sex marriage, a ban could take effect immediately in Idaho.
Representative Ilana Rubel, the minority house leader, who’s sponsoring a state constitutional amendment on same-sex marriage, and Sue Latta, the original plaintiff who successfully overturned Idaho’s same-sex marriage ban in 2014, joined Idaho Matters to talk more.