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The current cast of GOP governors have Arnold Schwarzenegger, a moderate Republican, to thank for the position they’re in. In 2010, the nationally known former governor of California refused to appeal a U.S. District Court’s decision striking down the state’s prohibition of same-sex marriage known as Proposition 8. Though an outside group came in to defend the law in place of the state, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last June that they did not have the legal standing to do so. In addition to legalizing gay marriage in California, a lesser known part of the ruling also established that only state officials could defend such bans in court. - www.usnews.com