"Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done, " Newsom said.
And the specific question presented before the Court right now is whether Prop 8 and the California law is unconstitutional.
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On Prop 8, the administrative is not a party to that case, and I have nothing for you on that.
California's Prop 8 is the only such referendum that revoked the right after lawmakers and the state courts previously allowed it.
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The DOMA and Prop 8 cases will test the delicate line over constitutional limits from both congressional, presidential, and judicial power.
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We wanted to talk about the implications of Prop 8, as well as some of the political tensions that have arisen since it passed.
You were working to get other African-American clergy like yourself to oppose Prop 8 and you, yourself, also just got married during this period.
She's the senior pastor and founder of Inner Light Ministries in Soquel, California, and she was among those fighting to keep Prop 8 from becoming law.
And all individuals in California under Prop 8 and elsewhere under similar laws are already being treated the same, all subject equally to the same limitations on marriage.
The Prop 8 case is Hollingsworth v.
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Eskridge told me there are likely five votes to DIG the Prop. 8 case, Hollingsworth v.
The backers of Prop. 8 have asked the Supreme Court to reverse the decision of the Ninth Circuit.
But the decision also makes it clear that what Prop. 8 backers were fighting for was not a whole lot.
If the Supreme Court declines review, same-sex couples would again be permitted to marry in California, as was the case for several months in 2008, prior to the passage of Prop. 8.
Instead of deciding whether any of the above are reasonable, the court concluded that Prop. 8 could have no effect on any of them so it had no rational basis for being the law of the land.
If the court accepts that argument, it may send the case back to the district court for review and an uncertain future because the original court ruling technically only prevented certain state and local officials from enforcing Prop. 8.
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Then, in a clever bit of judgeship designed to avoid deciding the case on a broader constitutional basis than necessary, the court said since Prop. 8 only involved the use of a word and the state could have no compelling reason to deny one class of people the use of that word the voter initiative was invalid from the start.
Eagles prop Mike MacDonald made the score 13-8 with a try in the corner but Tonga responded through Joseph Vaka.
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But Parra's penalty extended the French advantage to 8-3 after 27 minutes when Scotland prop Moray Low was pinged again at the scrum.
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Another Ulster error at the set-piece gifted the ball to the opposition and prop Balan drove over for a converted try to make it 15-8.
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