Maybe, Brummett thinks, there is sufficient confusion after all to get a clear resolution of the age-to-marry law, at least at the Supreme Court. He says the attorney general is reluctant to get in the case and that certainly seems odd  to me. The state’s chief legal officer is content to let a local court invalidate the codified law of the state without a peep of protest? And engender true confusion by doing so? Very strange.

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