Thanks to a heads up from the Joshua blog, ABC News just posted a story on their Web site that claims the White House is working hard behind the scenes in preparation for a possible nasty round of musical chairs for the US Supreme Court if two of the judges step down this spring.
Justice John Paul Stevens is one of the rumored potential retirees. At 89, the judge admitted to the Associated Press last fall that he hadn’t hired a full complement of clerks for next term, according to ABC News.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as we already know,announced last year that she had undergone surgery for early stage pancreatic cancer. She is 76.
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Gotta love the guy’s chutzpah. The lead counsel for the Prop 8 defense Andrew Pugno just doesn’t seem to get that being treated as less than or being viewed by society as some sort of freak somehow can actually impact a person’s self-worth. In his latest entry on the Protect Marriage blog he compares what he obviously views as the ridiculous notion of gay social stress and outcastdom as similar to special class considerations and imaginary demands of stutterers and exceptionally tall people.
Andrew really? Oh really?
It blows our mind the level of insensitivity and lack of empathy others display when not having had to walk in someone else’s shoes. Of course it would be hard to showcase the prism of emotions one carries throughout their daily lives when a majority of one’s society has determined that you are not worthy of the same privileges as they. That’s just not something you can act out in an impromptu game of charades. It either takes having the experience yourself to know the feeling or the simple act of compassion and the willingness to understand another human beings challenges when it it is so very clear that their path is very different than your own.
You’d think a college educated and intelligent man like Pugno could easily grasp that. But there’s almost this stubborn and unforgiving refusal to acknowledge that Prop 8 hurt people—-period. As though to do so would be a treason of sorts. To simply acknowledge that it hurt other human beings. Even if to just put the sexual identity aspect and constitutionality of it aside and just acknowledge that it hurt somebody. Is that too much to ask?
Here’s Pugno’s summation of the Prop 8 trial, day 4
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His name is Alan Sears. Mr. Sears is CEO and general counsel of the Allied Defense Fund. The fund bankrolls the defense for the Prop 8 trial. The fund has also bankrolled every other legal battle against marriage equality in the United States.
Here’s a special message from Mr. Sears for you. His agenda not only includes same sex marriage, it includes DOMA, ENDA—pretty much the destruction of any chance for this country’s LGBT community to see any glimmer of full civil rights and equality. This is one seriously deranged and dangerous white man. With a lot of money behind him—-and a lot of power.
03:10 – 10 months ago
Alliance Defense Fund President, CEO and General Counsel, Alan Sears, talks about the new administration’s support for homosexual demands and the new White House website that went up on inauguration day.
When you’re done watching the vid look at the following to see what Sears and his thugs are up to in DC right now while at the same time waging war against marriage equality in California.
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Supreme Court blocks cameras at gay marriage trial.
The Supreme Court has indefinitely blocked cameras from covering the high-profile federal court trial on the constitutionality of California’s ban on same-sex marriage.
The high court split 5-4 today, with the conservative justices in the majority.
Now in its third day, the trial in federal court in San Francisco is over the state’s voter-approved ban on gay marriage.
The presiding judge, Vaughn Walker, had proposed posting recordings of the trial on the court’s Web site after several hours of delay and allowing real-time streaming of the trial for viewing in other federal courthouses in California, New York, Oregon and Washington.
LA Times
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