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Closing arguments in the Proposition 8 trial yesterday ran for five hours. Though the plaintiff and defense teams were packed with lawyers, two spoke for most of that time. Ted Olson, who famously argued for Bush in Bush vs. Gore, spoke for the plaintiffs. Charles Cooper, another well-known...
Proposition 8 backers are focusing their closing statements on the "definition of marriage." Attorney Charles Cooper argued before the Judge that California and every other governing state for millennia has tried to channel procreative sexual conduct between men and women into an enduring union...
Inside of a densely packed courtroom, U.S. District Court Justice Vaughn Walker asked plaintiff's Attorney Ted Olson:
“When is it right for the court to weigh in on a state’s voter approved law?”
Olson said, “It depends on what the state is trying to do.”
The gray-haired attorney focused his...
Back in March, I wrote about Bay Area Open Carry, a loose group of local supporters of the right to carry an unloaded, holstered gun in public. In the past few days, the BAOC Twitter feed has been buzzing in response to the state Assembly’s passage of AB 1934 this past Tuesday....
Carmen Zheng, a freshman at Oakland Technical High School, earned the Honorable Mention prize and $250 in the fourth annual Being An American Essay Contest along with Middle College High School senior Jennifer Chong. The national competition is sponsored by the Bill of Rights Institute, an...
Today, we’re bringing you the final installment in our three-part series about immigration court. In the first two reports, we heard about how immigrants’ need for free legal services exceeds what local non profits can provide. And even those who can afford to hire private attorneys sometimes fall...
Yesterday, five of the nine Supreme Court Justices dealt Democracy a death blow. The Court handed down a ruling that allows corporations to spend money to directly influence federal elections. The "out of business" sign just got posted on the windows of Democracy. The country is now...
The Supreme Court is blocking a broadcast of the trial on California's same-sex marriage ban. Read more about it by clicking here.
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