Prior to the landmark ruling "United States v. Windsor", the constitutionality of banning same-sex marriage was upheld by the Eighth Circuit in "Citizens for Equal Protection v. Bruning".
 After the "Windsor" ruling, many same-sex marriage bans were struck down by lower courts.
 The Tenth, Fourth, Seventh, and Ninth circuits all ruled that same-sex marriage bans were unconstitutional.
 The cases that made it to these circuit courts originated in district courts which for the most part also struck down same-sex marriage bans.
 When a circuit court struck down a state's same-sex marriage ban, it did not directly strike down same-sex marriage bans in other states within the circuit.
 However, it paved the way for same-sex marriage bans to be struck down in the entire circuit due to the precedent it set for district courts within the circuit to follow.
 In some states, same-sex marriage was already legal before a federal circuit court ruled on the matter.
 The Sixth Circuit ruled that same-sex marriage bans were not unconstitutional and reversed the district court rulings that struck down same-sex marriage bans.
 Since this was the only circuit court to rule this way post-"Windsor", this created a circuit split which ultimately led to the Supreme Court of the United States deciding to resolve the issue once and for all.
 They ruled that same-sex marriage bans violate the constitution in the landmark ruling "Obergefell v. Hodges" which was the consolidated case that covered each state in the Sixth Circuit.
 Some circuit courts have not ruled on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage bans at all.
 Many circuit courts had pending same-sex marriage cases, but decided to hold off on litigation until the Supreme Court ruled on the matter.
Same-sex marriage in Arkansas is legal under the U.S. Supreme Court decision in "Obergefell v. Hodges", a landmark case in which same-sex marriage bans were struck down on June 26, 2015.
 Prior to that, same-sex marriage in Arkansas was briefly legal for a period beginning on May 9, 2014, as the result of a ruling by Sixth Judicial Circuit Judge Chris Piazza, striking down the state's constitutional and legislative ban on same-sex marriage as violating the Constitution of the United States.
 Approximately 541 same-sex couples received marriage licenses in several Arkansas counties before the Arkansas Supreme Court stayed his ruling pending appeal on May 16, 2014.
Same-sex marriage is legal in Texas and all other U.S. states as per the U.S. Supreme Court ruling of "Obergefell v. Hodges" on June 26, 2015.
 Same-sex couples began obtaining marriage licenses in some counties of the state within hours of the ruling, while other counties awaited direction from state officials, local county attorney advice, or were awaiting corrected state marriage license forms.
 In one or more counties, local officials or judges refused to marry same-sex couples on religious grounds.
 Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an opinion supporting officials who refused to grant marriage licenses in defiance of the "Obergefell" ruling.
Same-sex marriage in Ohio is legal under the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in "Obergefell v. Hodges", a landmark decision in which the court struck down Ohio's statutory and constitutional bans on the issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples on June 26, 2015.
 The case was named after plaintiff Jim Obergefell, who sued the state of Ohio after officials refused to recognize his marriage on the death certificate of his husband.
 Same-sex marriages were performed in Ohio beginning shortly after the Supreme Court released its ruling, as local officials implemented the order.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the Northern Mariana Islands face legal challenges and discrimination not faced by other people.
 Same-sex marriage and adoption became legal with the Supreme Court's ruling in the case of "Obergefell v. Hodges" in June 2015, however, the territory does not ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Richard John Baker v. Gerald R. Nelson, 291 Minn. 310, 191 N.W.2d 185 (1971) is a case in which the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that a state law limiting marriage to persons of the opposite sex did not violate the U.S. Constitution.
 Baker appealed, and on October 10, 1972, the United States Supreme Court dismissed the appeal "for want of a substantial federal question."
 Because the case came to the U.S. Supreme Court through mandatory appellate review (not "certiorari"), the dismissal constituted a decision on the merits and established "Baker v. Nelson" as precedent, though the extent of its precedential effect had been subject to debate.
 In May 2013, Minnesota legalized same-sex marriage and it took effect on August 1, 2013.
 Subsequently, on June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court explicitly overruled "Baker" in "Obergefell v. Hodges" making same-sex marriage legal nationwide.
Same-sex marriage is legal in Mississippi.
 On November 25, 2014, U.S. District Court Judge Carlton W. Reeves of the District Court for Southern Mississippi, ruled Mississippi's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional.
 Enforcement of his ruling was stayed pending appeal to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
 On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in "Obergefell v. Hodges" that the denial of marriage rights to same-sex couples is unconstitutional.
 On June 29, the state attorney general ordered clerks to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
 On July 1, the Fifth Circuit lifted its stay and Judge Reeves ordered an end to Mississippi's enforcement of its same-sex marriage ban.
 However, until July 2, 2015, several counties in Mississippi continued to refuse to issue same-sex couple marriage licenses, including DeSoto, Jasper, Jones, Newton, Pontotoc, Simpson and Yalobusha.
Same-sex marriage has been legal in New Hampshire since January 1, 2010, based on legislation signed into law by Governor John Lynch on June 3, 2009.
 The law provided that civil unions, which the state had established as of January 1, 2008, would be converted to marriages on January 1, 2011, unless dissolved, annulled, or converted to marriage before that date.
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in "Obergefell v. Hodges" on June 26, 2015, held that the denial of marriage rights to same-sex couples is unconstitutional, invalidating the ban on same-sex marriage in Louisiana.
 The ruling clarified conflicting court rulings on whether Louisianian officials are obligated to license same-sex marriages. Governor Bobby Jindal confirmed on June 28 that Louisiana would comply with the ruling once the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed its decision in a Louisiana case, which the Fifth Circuit did on July 1.
 Jindal then said the state would not comply with the ruling until the federal District Court reversed its judgment, which it did on July 2.
 All parishes now issue marriage licenses in accordance with federal law.
Even before the "Obergefell v. Hodges" Supreme Court ruling making same-sex marriage legal across all the states of the United States, same-sex marriage was legal in all of the New England states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont, as well as in the neighboring states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware.
 The New England region has been noted for being the nucleus of the same-sex marriage movement in the United States, with the region having among the most widespread and earliest legal support of any region.
 In 2004, Massachusetts became the first state in the United States to legalize same-sex marriage, to be followed by three more states between October 2008 and June 2009.
 This followed Vermont being the first-in-the-nation with civil unions in 2000.
 Before the 2012 election, California (2008), Iowa (2009), New York (2011) and the District of Columbia (2010) had been the only U.S. jurisdictions outside New England to have performed same-sex marriages, though same-sex marriages in California had been halted following the passage of Proposition 8.

Question: The political issue that was the center of the Obergefell v. Hodges case was made legal in New Hampshire by signature of what governor?
Answer: John Lynch