Hmmm. Methinks those Slate characters are getting just a wee bit carried away. Note the pointer at the bottom of Richard Thompson Ford's piece on the SF marriage scandals (emphasis mine):

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Read Dahlia Lithwick's anaylsis of what exactly an attorney general can do to rein in an state official in conflict with slate law.

Update: Slate promptly fixed the typo after I emailed them about it, so it's gone now...and I even got a personal "thanks" from Ms. Lithwick, who I've been known to blog-crush on from time to time. Happy day!