As expected, lawyers for a Virginia county court clerk defending the state’s bans on same-sex marriages have asked Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. to put on hold a federal appellate panel’s decision striking down those bans.

​Alliance Defending Freedom, counsel to Prince William County clerk Michele McQuigg, asked for a stay of the decision in Bostic v. Schaefer pending the justices’ disposition of “all timely filed” petitions for review.

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