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College Professor Kenneth Miller was brought to the stand yesterday by the defense in the current Prop 8 trial. The point of his testimony yesterday was to say that gays had significant political power. Today, attorneys for the plaintiff’s worked diligently to draw statements from Miller which support that theory that Prop 8 was motivated […]
STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH IS SCHEDULED FOR THIS WEDNESDAY WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama is expected to talk about the "Don’t ask, don’t tell" rule that bars openly gay Americans from serving in the military during his State of the Union address this week, a senior lawmaker said on Monday. During his 2008
On Monday, January 25th, the 10th day of the Prop 8 case being heard in San Francisco, Ted Olson and David Boies, attorneys for the plaintiffs, rested their case. Now, the defense team makes their case… The Washington Post reports… Kenneth Miller, a professor at Claremont McKenna College who teaches California politics and researches
The California Democrat — who told the New York Times‘s Maureen Dowd that his political future was so fuzzy he could, in a couple years, end up "as the clerk of a wine store" — called Obama’s slow walking on support for gay marriage "fundamentally inexcusable." "Oh, I can’t get in trouble here," Newsom
So how about us renaming the Supreme Court of the United States to call it THE 5-4 COURT OF THE UNITED STATES?? Virtually every ruling that comes out of this politically motivated court is 5-4. Even the ruling on whether the current Prop 8 trial could be televised or not was 5-4. Think about
One of the tactics attorneys for the plaintiffs in the Prop 8 trial is to show that LGBT Americans lack political power. As such they are a disadvantaged group and therefore the ban on same sex marriage is unconstitutional because it targets such a group. Attorneys for Prop 8 are attempting to use such things
Plaintiff attorneys are once again questioning Hack Sing William Tam, who was part of the trial defense, then dropped out, then was brought back in when it was revealed he was heavily involved in the Prop 8 campaign, as well as promoting his opinion that gay marriage would lead to laws allowing sex with children
