State Sen. Josh Boschee, D-Fargo. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)
(North Dakota Monitor) – The North Dakota Senate rejected a resolution that would have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its same-sex marriage ruling from 2015.
Members voted down House Resolution 3013 on a 31-16 vote. It was not a roll call vote, which means it did not identify how individual lawmakers voted.
Sen. Diane Larson, R-Bismarck, introduced the resolution and told lawmakers to vote how they saw fit. The Senate Judiciary Committee, which Larson chairs, voted 6-1 on Wednesday to advance the resolution to the floor without a recommendation.
Sen. Josh Boschee, D-Fargo, told his fellow lawmakers that even though the resolution would just send a letter to the U.S. Supreme Court that justices would probably never read, it would send a loud message to residents of North Dakota.
“We all know based on the emails, and the phone calls, and the text messages we’ve received that many North Dakotans are paying attention to this,” Boschee said.
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