On Fox News this morning, NOM President Brian Brown and Sean Eldridge of Freedom to Marry discussed judicial activism and last week’s decision by Iowa voters to rein in their state supreme court, reacting to the court’s ruling on same-sex marriage with an unprecedented ouster of all three justices up for retention.
The Human Rights Campaign declared NOM public enemy number one this week, with the launch of its new website NOMexposed.org.
From Ed Whelan: “Applying Ockham’s razor, I will readily presume that Walker’s wild course of misconduct in the anti-Prop 8 case was driven entirely by his ideological fervor for same-sex marriage and that Walker wasn’t also trying to feather his own post-judicial nest.
The Associated Press—which appears to have the inside about Judge Walker—says he's stepping down at the end of the year.
HRC’s Joe Solmonese is devoting a lot of his organization’s resources to “exposing” us here at NOM. Guess what they found out and put up their website?
NOM's dynamite amicus brief has just been filed with the 9th Circuit.
The attorneys general of 13 states have signed onto an amicus brief, defending the rights of voters in their states to determine the meaning of marriage through the democratic process.
Ted Olson is mining his GOP connections to fund the assault on our Constitution that Judge Walker and Olson have initiated. Wall Street loves gay marriage.
John Horvat observes that history is replete with examples “where someone mistakenly sounds the retreat when victory was in sight. This seems to be the case against same-sex “marriage.”
Another legal expert, this one sympathetic to gay marriage, argues that Judge Walker and the Olson/Boies Dream Team will go down to defeat at the Supreme Court.
The Prop 8 legal defense team just filed their opening brief with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the Perry v. Schwarzenegger case, and it is a tour de force. Authored by chief Prop 8 litigator Chuck Cooper, the 100+ page brief shreds the decision of federal district court Judge Vaughn Walker, and lays bare all the legal, logical and factual errors that Walker made in his ruling
The LA Times, of all places, editorializes: