Watch or Listen to Yesterday's Oral Arguments in the Same-Sex Marriage Appeal
In case you missed yesterday's dramatic courtroom arguments in the Proposition 8 case, you can listen or watch a replay of the entire proceedings, below.
The first part of the session dealt with the issue of whether the Proposition 8 proponents filing the appeal had standing, the right to intervene in the case, since California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown had both declined to appeal a lower court's ruling that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional.
The hearing's second part addressed the constitutional question raised by Judge Vaughn R. Walker's ruling in U.S. District Court: Does a marriage ban violate the equal protection and due process rights of same-sex couples, as represented by the plaintiffs, one gay and one lesbian couple.
Listen to KQED's coverage of the hearing, or watch a C-SPAN video replay.
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And follow along on KQED's live blog of the event, by Dan Brekke.
Related:
- Pre-hearing primers
- Scott Shafer interviews Kris Perry, one of the plaintiffs in the case, and Robert Tyler, lawyer-for-the defense who is acting on behalf of Imperial County.
- Ted Olson, Gay Marriage's Unlikely Legal Warrior (Nina Totenberg, NPR)