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Last year, when he was 16, Arnoldo said he was drinking, selling drugs and hanging out with a dangerous crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he fell into a dark depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was crazy,” he said. “I tried to commit suicide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93136\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/03/men-of-influence-brings-parenting-to-oaklands-streets/arnoldo/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93136\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/arnoldo.jpg\" alt=\"Arnoldo Atilio Garay in a photo taken by his father.\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93136\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arnoldo Atilio Garay in a photo taken by his father.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in Sacramento, and after that his mother kicked him out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She had some problems with me,” Arnoldo said. “She said she can’t do a man’s job, so she sent me closer to my dad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before his father came to pick him up at the psychiatric hospital last year, Arnoldo said he didn’t know him that well. 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He opened up to the group, telling them about dealing drugs and spending time in a psychiatric hospital. One of the men gave Arnoldo his cell phone number and told him to call if he ever needed anything, day or night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s actually pretty cool because it’s people trying to help give back to the community,” Arnoldo said. “And some of us really just need the help, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lamar Allen is one of the Men of Influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to become the elders, we have to adopt these kids in a sense,” said the 44-year-old Allen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An elder can be 29 or 60, Allen said. The important thing is for Men of Influence to recruit teenagers in order to work toward actually stopping the shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just wanna show the kids that’s out here now, feeling hopeless, that we care,” Allen said. “And put the gun down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what 29-year-old Greg Johnson is trying to do with Damarea, who is about to become a father himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damarea said he is determined to do a better job than his father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want my child to feel toward me how I feel toward my father,” he said. “Like feel neglected, feel like he could have been there. The same old story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson gives Damarea rides to basketball games and shares parenting advice. In return, on a recent Saturday, Damarea helped Johnson and other members of Men of Influence pick up trash in the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t lead ‘em, somebody else is lead[ing] ‘em,” Johnson said. “You don’t ever want the wrong person to lead ‘em, so that’s part of stepping up. You see him out here helping, he being a productive community member, so that’s all you could ask.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Filling a Vacuum\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But raising a son in East Oakland can be incredibly hard, as group founder Glen Upshaw knows. 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"content": "\u003cp>“We’re getting a lot of calls,” said the receptionist at Oikos University on Monday, the day before the anniversary of the horror. “But we would like to stay peaceful and quiet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 2, 2012, for reasons that might never be clear, a gunman shot 10 people, killing seven of them in and around the school. Police arrested One Goh, a Korean national, and said he quickly confessed to the crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goh has pleaded not guilty, and was found incompetent to stand trial. A judge ordered him to be treated at Napa State Hospital with the goal of restoring him to sanity so he can stand trial,\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/01/28/oakland-school-massacre-suspect-to-be-treated-at-napa-state-hospital/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> CBSlocal.com \u003c/a>reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before that day, few people in Oakland — let alone the rest of the world — knew about Oikos, a Bible, nursing and music school whose student body has a high quotient of immigrants. Now it finds itself famous for events beyond its control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school held its own service for the victims the week after the massacre, recorded in this video:\u003cbr>\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opkT6xEOkeU?rel=0]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seven who died — Tshering Bhutia, Sonam Choedon, Doris Chibuko, Grace Euhea Kim, Katleen Ping, Judith\u003c!--more--> O. Seymour and Lydia H. Sim — came from around the world. But the seminary and school of music at the school are predominantly Korean, according to Yoonsil Kae, who teaches music at a sister school in Mountain View.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kae and fellow members of the San Francisco Korean Master Chorale have been planning a concert on the one-year anniversary of the shooting ever since they heard about it, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are so sorry for the school and the victims,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 45-member chorale will \u003ca href=\"http://www.oikosuniversity.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">perform\u003c/a> Mozart’s Requiem at 7 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church at 114 Montecito Ave., Oakland. The concert will feature four soloists and will be accompanied by six stringed instruments and an organ. Civic leaders from Oakland are expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They will hold a similar concert in Sacramento on April 13 at 7 p.m. at Capital Korean Presbyterian Church, 1441 Tong Rd., El Dorado Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident has left a difficult legacy for the Korean-American community, reports Jay Caspian Kang, himself a Korean-American, in the\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/magazine/should-it-matter-that-the-shooter-at-oikos-university-was-korean.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> New York Times\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Nobody in Temescal’s Koreatown wanted to talk about Koreanness and One Goh. The head of the Korean Community Center of the East Bay gave me a lecture on how the subprime-mortgage crisis crippled the Korean community, and she implied that the problem with Korean rage lay in socioeconomic factors. I was politely escorted out of two separate Korean churches after I asked some members of the congregations if they had any concerns about the perceptions of the larger public. Overwhelmingly, the sentiment among the older Korean people I talked to was this: The shooting was a shameful act that would bring trouble on the community if publicized and discussed.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, victims, too, are struggling to make sense of their loss, reports the \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_22908478/anniversay-oikos-shooting-massacre-oakland-evokes-painful-memories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Tribune\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Almost every night for the last year Wangchen Nyima has been awakened in the middle of the night by a terrible dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He sees his dead sister, Sonam Choedon, whom he often helped financially, calling out to him in her native Tibetan. “Cho-cho,” she cries out, using the Tibetan word for older brother, “Cho-cho, can I have some pocket money?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nyima is rarely able to go back to sleep after these encounters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I keep thinking, ‘Why?'” he said. “I still can’t believe that she’s gone.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Tange Harris found herself in the middle of a bad situation a few months ago. When she stopped by her mother’s house in East Oakland, her nephew was out front with two of his kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then a group of people showed up. They were there to beat up Harris’ nephew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like 13 people against my nephew,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93076\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/02/stopping-violence-before-it-begins-in-oakland/peace-is-not-the-absence-of-tension/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93076\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-93076\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/5152743108_7bf0d9b716_b-300x200.jpg\" alt='\"Peace is not the absense of tension,\" mural in downtown Oakland. Muralists throughout Oakland have tackled police brutality and local violence. 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She called Glen Upshaw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Using Influence to Prevent Violence\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upshaw runs a new network of neighborhood elders called \u003ca href=\"http://www.menofinfluence.net/default.html\">Men of Influence\u003c/a>. The group seeks to connect with Oakland youth and prevent violence before it can start, both by mediating disputes and serving as role models to the often fatherless kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He jumped into action when Harris called.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We got on the phone. We started making contacts with people who did know this person,” Upshaw said. “They got into contact with the person who was going to be the shooter, and we were able to resolve that incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In East Oakland, as in many rough city neighborhoods across the country, gun-related crimes happen daily. Citywide, police recorded an average of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/28/oaklands-gun-problem-11-firearm-crimes-a-day/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">11 gun incidents a day\u003c/a> last year, from armed robberies to killings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s easy to add up the crimes, but it is much harder to get them to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Men of Influence believes it takes those who know the streets to make them safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upshaw banks on his reputation in East Oakland when he works to diffuse a potentially violent situation. He knows it’s vital he remain fair and patient when others are hot-headed.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>Men of Influence believes it takes those who know the streets to make them safer.\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And he is looking for others to join him — men who know the streets, men who’ve gone to jail. Most importantly: Men who do not snitch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a code of honor out here,” Upshaw said. “It’s a big thing for a person to get in trouble and go do their time, and do it like a man, without telling. … That means a lot to the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upshaw is trying to recruit people every five or 10 blocks throughout the toughest parts of Oakland. That way, when the Men of Influence hotline gets a call about a dispute, Upshaw already has someone lined up who knows the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris said she believes this could work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there’s a murder on 96th, and you want to stop the violence on 96th, where do you go? You go to 96th, you go to where the problem is,” she said. “You don’t walk around the problem. You have to go right in there — if you walk into danger, you walk into danger. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They fought hard enough to send the group away, Harris said. But retaliation escalated back and forth. Harris said she worried someone would end up dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then an unknown man began casing Harris’ mother’s house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Harris did not call the police. She called Glen Upshaw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Using Influence to Prevent Violence\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upshaw runs a new network of neighborhood elders called \u003ca href=\"http://www.menofinfluence.net/default.html\">Men of Influence\u003c/a>. The group seeks to connect with Oakland youth and prevent violence before it can start, both by mediating disputes and serving as role models to the often fatherless kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He jumped into action when Harris called.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We got on the phone. We started making contacts with people who did know this person,” Upshaw said. “They got into contact with the person who was going to be the shooter, and we were able to resolve that incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In East Oakland, as in many rough city neighborhoods across the country, gun-related crimes happen daily. Citywide, police recorded an average of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/28/oaklands-gun-problem-11-firearm-crimes-a-day/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">11 gun incidents a day\u003c/a> last year, from armed robberies to killings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s easy to add up the crimes, but it is much harder to get them to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Men of Influence believes it takes those who know the streets to make them safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upshaw banks on his reputation in East Oakland when he works to diffuse a potentially violent situation. He knows it’s vital he remain fair and patient when others are hot-headed.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>Men of Influence believes it takes those who know the streets to make them safer.\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And he is looking for others to join him — men who know the streets, men who’ve gone to jail. Most importantly: Men who do not snitch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a code of honor out here,” Upshaw said. “It’s a big thing for a person to get in trouble and go do their time, and do it like a man, without telling. … That means a lot to the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upshaw is trying to recruit people every five or 10 blocks throughout the toughest parts of Oakland. That way, when the Men of Influence hotline gets a call about a dispute, Upshaw already has someone lined up who knows the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris said she believes this could work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there’s a murder on 96th, and you want to stop the violence on 96th, where do you go? You go to 96th, you go to where the problem is,” she said. “You don’t walk around the problem. You have to go right in there — if you walk into danger, you walk into danger. If you wanna stop the violence, then you have to allow yourself to walk into danger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, Upshaw’s core group has grown to 18 men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the Men of Influence has moved on to phase two: going deeper into neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘OK to Approach?’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early one morning, eight men fanned out across Oakland’s Seminary neighborhood. They picked up trash and handed out flyers. This small act of community service is their way of cautiously introducing themselves to people and recruiting new members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How you doing? Is it OK to approach?” Upshaw asked a man sitting on his front porch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upshaw walked up to him. They chatted for a bit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, if you see any violence or anything of that sort, you can call our hotline, and we’ll get right on it and try and resolve anything,” Upshaw told the man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s nice,” the man said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upshaw plans to introduce his group to a new neighborhood every month. But first, he said, the men need permission. Otherwise, neighbors might take offense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people might take it … disrespectful, and they might want to shoot at you,” he said. “It’s no telling. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A judge accepted Stockton's bankruptcy application on Monday, making it the most populous city in the nation to enter bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_68627\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/06/22/stockton-wobbles-toward-bankruptcy/stockton-ca-leads-nation-in-rate-of-foreclosures/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68627\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-68627 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/StocktonSign0422.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein said the bankruptcy declaration was needed to allow the city to continue to provide basic services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's apparent to me the city would not be able to perform its obligations to its citizens on fundamental public safety as well as other basic government services without the ability to have the muscle of the contract-impairing power of federal bankruptcy law,\" Klein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of nearly 300,000 people has become emblematic of government excess and the financial calamity that resulted when the nation's housing bubble burst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its salaries, benefits and borrowing were based on anticipated long-term developer fees and increasing property tax revenue. But those were lost in a flurry of foreclosures beginning in the mid-2000s and a 70 percent decline in the city's tax base.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's creditors wanted to keep Stockton out of bankruptcy — a status that will likely allow the city to avoid repaying its debts in full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They argued the city had not cut spending enough or sought a tax increase that would have allowed it to avoid bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew Walsh, an attorney for the bond holders, declined to comment after Monday's ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the city said the city's budget and services had been cut to the bone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's nothing to celebrate about bankruptcy,\" said Bob Deis, Stockton's city manager. \"But it is a vindication of what we've been saying for nine months.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chapter 9 bankruptcy case is being closely watched nationally for potential precedent-setting implications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $900 million that Stockton owes to the California Public Employees' Retirement System to cover pension promises is its biggest debt. So far Stockton has kept up with pension payments while it has reneged on other debts, maintaining that it needs a strong pension plan to retain its pared-down workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The creditors who challenged Stockton's bankruptcy petition are the bond insurers who guaranteed $165 million in loans the city secured in 2007 to pay its contributions to the CalPERS pension fund. That debt got out of hand as property tax values plummeted during the recession, and money to pay the pension obligation fell short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal observers expect the creditors to aggressively challenge Stockton's repayment plan in the next phase of the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2009 Stockton had accumulated nearly $1 billion in debt on civic improvements, money owed to pay pension contributions, and the most generous health care benefit in the state — coverage for life for all retirees plus a dependent, no matter how long they had worked for the city.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-92874\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Prop8.jpg\" alt=\"Prop8\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">Crowds of people outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C protest the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/27/doma-oral-arguments-explained/\">Defense of Marriage Act\u003c/a> on Wednesday, March 27. (Jacob Fenston/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-92876\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/PhotoWeek130329rainbowflag.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoWeek130329rainbowflag\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">On Tuesday March 26, the rainbow flag was \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/03/26/berkeley-marks-supreme-court-cases-with-rainbow-flag/\">raised over Berkeley City Hall\u003c/a> to mark arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court on Proposition 8. 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More than 300 family, students, and community members from San Jose came together at a vigil to remember and celebrate this promising musician and talented young artist. He was remembered by his uncle as “giving his love easily and to everyone.” (Charisse Domingo/\u003ca href=\"http://www.sjbeez.org/\">San Jose Beez\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/berkboy/\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-92886\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/PhotoWeek130329baseball.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoWeek130329baseball\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>Cal baseball has 121 years of history, including 80 at Evans Diamond in Berkeley. 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"content": "\u003cp>Paranoid, schizophrenic and transgender, Kayla Moore followed a difficult path through life. That path ended abruptly when she died after Berkeley Police took her into custody the night of Feb. 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_92830\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/28/berkeley-investigators-probe-police-role-in-transgender-womans-death/police-cruiser-thinkstock-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-92830\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-92830\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/police-cruiser-thinkstock2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"police cruiser thinkstock\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Thinkstock)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now the \u003ca href=\"http://ci.berkeley.ca.us/prc/\">Berkeley Police Review Commission\u003c/a> wants to know exactly how Moore died and what it might mean for the way the department deals with transgender people and with the mentally ill. On Wednesday night the commission voted unanimously to investigate the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even before it started, the investigation has run into serious obstacles. The police are conducting their own investigation, and a Berkeley ordinance prevents a commission investigation from beginning until criminal investigations are complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will be stayed by our regulations pending the investigation by the Berkeley Police Department, which is a little ridiculous,” Commissioner Seth Morris said. “But it sounds like that’s what our regulations are. Until we rewrite the book, that’s where we are.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission did file a formal complaint, the first step toward an investigation. The complaint had to be filed within 90 days of the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Police Department has released few details about officers’ response to Moore’s apartment. Berkeley Police Chief Michael Meehan said three official investigations are pending – one criminal, one internal policy and training, and a third investigation into Moore’s cause of death by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedacountysheriff.org/cws_coroners.php\">Alameda County Coroner\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police have also refused to release basic information about the nature of officers’ encounter with Moore, citing their ongoing investigations. A Feb. 13 department \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/uploadedFiles/Police/Level_3_-_General/Subject%20Dies%20Following%20Struggle%20With%20Police.pdf\">press release\u003c/a> said police responded to a disturbance at Moore’s downtown Berkeley apartment, and Moore “became increasingly uncooperative to the officer’s verbal commands and began to scream and violently resist.” Officer’s struggled with Moore, and then placed her “in restraints.” They later determined she had stopped breathing and initiated CPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The account raised a lot of questions for Moore’s family and friends, who often refer to Kayla by her given name Xavier and use the male pronoun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore’s sister, Maria Moore, said Berkeley Police knew Moore’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Berkeley was well aware of Xavier’s issues,” she said. “I don’t know the circumstances that happened that night, but mental health wasn’t there for him. They needed that aspect to help calm him down, to help communicate with him. You’re dealing with someone who’s paranoid, who trusts no one, and you have the police there?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had his issues, psychiatric and some drug addiction issues, but he was a gentle soul,” said Carl Butler, the longtime boyfriend of Moore’s sister. “He spent more time taking care of other people than he did himself. Unless prompted, he was never aggressive, which leads to so many questions about the actions of the Berkeley PD that night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the meeting, Butler pressed Meehan on the fact that officers who responded to Moore’s apartment have been removed from administrative leave and are back on their beats, but Meehan offered no explanation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My main concern at this point in time, other than the lack of information being shared with us, is the fact that the police officers involved are back on duty, which shows me that there has been an internal investigation completed,” Butler said. “How come the chief couldn’t share findings of that investigation this evening?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Police spokeswoman Officer Jennifer Coats said the officers had served the set period of time defined by department policy on administrative leave, and had since been put back on their beats. 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A Feb. 13 department \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/uploadedFiles/Police/Level_3_-_General/Subject%20Dies%20Following%20Struggle%20With%20Police.pdf\">press release\u003c/a> said police responded to a disturbance at Moore’s downtown Berkeley apartment, and Moore “became increasingly uncooperative to the officer’s verbal commands and began to scream and violently resist.” Officer’s struggled with Moore, and then placed her “in restraints.” They later determined she had stopped breathing and initiated CPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The account raised a lot of questions for Moore’s family and friends, who often refer to Kayla by her given name Xavier and use the male pronoun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore’s sister, Maria Moore, said Berkeley Police knew Moore’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Berkeley was well aware of Xavier’s issues,” she said. “I don’t know the circumstances that happened that night, but mental health wasn’t there for him. 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"content": "\u003cp>U.S. Supreme Court justices heard arguments for almost two hours on the federal Defense of Marriage Act Wednesday morning. The court covered wide ground, once again spending a significant amount of time on the topic of standing. This time the questions centered around whether the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG), under the leadership of House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, had the legal right to sue. As in Proposition 8, the standing question could give the court the option to avoid the case by ruling that it should not have gone through the court system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_92735\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/27/doma-oral-arguments-explained/visitors-an-employees-arrive-at-the-us-s/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-92735\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-92735\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/RS2263_SupremeCourt100311-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"Supreme Court (Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supreme Court (Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Paul J. 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My big takeaway from this has always been: The court did not really want to take these cases. … They may end up doing nothing at all, because both cases may get resolved on procedural standing grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The basic idea is courts exist to decide crisp disputes, not just answer questions everyone wants answered. So unless you have somebody who is a plaintiff who has a lot at stake, and you have a defendant who is an appropriate defendant, then the court simply should not be able to render a ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[At question is] whether [BLAG] is an appropriate representative of the Congress that passed the DOMA. Let’s say that the House of Representatives had not stepped in to defend DOMA, say some conservative pro-marriage group did. Now, it is Windsor against the United States, the United States is not defending, the House, the Senate, no one in the government is defending. But someone who likes the DOMA steps in and says, \"I’ll defend it.\" We clearly would not allow a court to resolve that case on the merits because we would not have confidence that that outside group that wants to defend DOMA would do the right kind of job, given that they are not a valid representative of the people and the Congress that passed the DOMA.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Can you tell me where the authorization is here? I know that there is a statute that gives the Senate specifically authorization to intervene and that there was consideration of extending that right to the House. But the appointment of BLAG is strange to me, because it's not in a statute, it's in a House rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So where -- how does that constitute anything other than a private agreement among some Senators, the House leadership? And where -- from where do they derive the right, the statutory right, to take on the power of representing the House in items outside of the House? I know they control the procedures within the House, but that's a very different step from saying that they can decide who or to create standing in some way, prudential or otherwise, Article III or otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MR. CLEMENT: Well, Justice Sotomayor, I can point you to two places. One is the House rules that are pursuant to the rulemaking authority and approved by the institution. They're approved in every Congress. Rule 2.8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: What other House Rule creates the power of the majority leaders to represent the House outside of the functions of the House?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can the President Choose Not to Uphold the Law?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Amar:\u003c/strong> Historically [how it works for] the president and the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., is that when a law is passed by Congress, even over a presidential veto, and is later challenged in court as being unconstitutional, that the executive branch of the United States views it as its job to defend what Congress has done and it will provide a vigorous defense in court. Unless the law is patently unconstitutional and no reasonable person could think there is a defense. So the president over the years has personally defended all sorts of laws he thinks are unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Obama did not follow that general historical practice here, and hasn’t fully explained why this is an appropriate exception. That’s what Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Scalia were frustrated by, because then a statute can die on the vine simply because the President is not enforcing it and yet no court has ever weighed in to invalidate it because there’s no case in which a case could do so. That gives a lot of power and discretion to the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Chadha\u003c/em> is a case in which Congress passed a law that basically limited the president’s authority and enhanced Congress’s authority. Congress used that authority to deport a man named Mr. Chadha. He objected to this law on the ground that it … was a usurpation of authority by Congress. So, Chadha sued the federal government, the INS who was going to deport him and the president, through the attorney general, agreed with Mr. Chadha…So when the case was litigated you have the same situation you have in Prop. 8 and the DOMA, you have the executive branch on the side of the challenger rather than on the side of defending the legislative enactment. So the question is whether if \u003cem>Chadha\u003c/em> was a case that was appropriate for Supreme Court resolution, why shouldn’t the DOMA case be similar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are some important distinctions, so if it wants to [the court] can get rid of the case on standing grounds, and dooesn't have to overrule the \u003cem>Chadha\u003c/em> case, it just has to limit the \u003cem>Chadha\u003c/em> ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: No, it's not just - it's not unusual. It's totally unprecedented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MR. SRINIVASAN: Well, it's totally unprecedented in one respect, Your Honor. If you look at Chadha -- okay, the second point I'd make. Let me make one point at the outset, though, which is that whether it's totally unusual or largely unusual, I grant you that it doesn't happen. But the reason it doesn't happen is because -- I wouldn't confuse a numerator with a denominator. This set of circumstances just doesn't arise very often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, it's true that when this set of circumstances -\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JUSTICE SCALIA: It has not arisen very often in the past, because in the past, when I was at the Office of Legal Counsel, there was an opinion of the Office of Legal Counsel which says that the Attorney General will defend the laws of the United States, except in two circumstances: Number one, where the basis for the alleged unconstitutionality has to do with presidential powers. When the presidential powers are involved, he's the lawyer for the President. So he can say, we think the statute's unconstitutional, I won't defend it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second situation is where no possible rational argument could be made in defense of it. Now, neither of those situations exists here. And I'm wondering if we're living in this new world where the Attorney General can simply decide, yeah, it's unconstitutional, but it's not so unconstitutional that I'm not willing to enforce it, if we're in this new world, I -- I don't want these cases like this to come before this Court all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I think they will come all the time if that's -- if that's -- if that's the new regime in the Justice Department that we're dealing with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: I would have thought your answer would be that the Executive's obligation to execute the law includes the obligation to execute the law consistent with the Constitution. And if he has made a determination that executing the law by enforcing the terms is unconstitutional, I don't see why he doesn't have the courage of his convictions and execute not only the statute, but do it consistent with his view of the Constitution, rather than saying, oh, we'll wait till the Supreme Court tells us we have no choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JUSTICE ALITO: Well, how are you aggrieved? \"Aggrieved\" means that you are deprived of your legal rights. And you don't think that you've been deprived of your legal rights because your rights -- your obligations under the Constitution supercede DOMA, and you haven't been deprived of anything that you're entitled to under the Constitution. So how are you aggrieved?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MR. SRINIVASAN: I guess we'd -- I'd subscribe to the aggrievement analysis that the Court made in Chadha at pages 929 to 931 of its opinion. And what the Court said is this: \"When an agency of the United States is a party to a case in which an act of Congress that it administers is held unconstitutional, it is an aggrieved party. The agency's status as an aggrieved party is not altered by the fact that the Executive may agree with the holding that the statute in question is unconstitutional.\" That description is on all fours with the circumstances of this case.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Federalism\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Amar:\u003c/strong> Would the federal government be stepping on the toes of the states by treating same-sex couples as married, even when those couples were not treated as married in that state? Those are the kinds of questions that really probe this federalism rationale. How much is marriage an exclusive domain of the states? And is the federal government really out of its arena? To say that the federal government always has to defer to the states, or generally defer to the states in these marital arenas would be a big step, but at least is a step that does not resolve the meta-question here about whether the 40-odd states that ban same-sex marriage would have to change what they’re doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>JUSTICE KENNEDY: Well, I think -- I think it is a DOMA problem. The question is whether or not the Federal government, under our federalism scheme, has the authority to regulate marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JUSTICE KENNEDY: Well, it applies to over what, 1,100 Federal laws, I think we are saying. 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It’s certainly OK to treat criminals differently than non-criminals; the former go to jail, the latter do not. It’s also certainly not OK to treat ethnic minorities differently than whites without a really strong justification. So why is it OK to treat criminals different than non-criminals, but not OK to treat blacks differently than whites?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are the big questions in equal protection and how do they apply to a group like gays and lesbians. Are they more like racial minorities or are they more properly analogous to other groups in society that don’t benefit from any special judicial protection? 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"content": "\u003cp>After a long and winding road, Proposition 8 had its day at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday. For more than an hour, the justices of the high court grilled attorneys on California's same-sex marriage ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_92585\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/26/proposition-8-oral-arguments-explained/us-chief-justice-john-roberts-c-front-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-92585\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-92585\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/912367741-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"File photo of Supreme Court justices. (Mandel Ngan/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo of Supreme Court justices. (Mandel Ngan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/26/audio-transcript-of-supreme-court-proposition-8-oral-arguments/\" target=\"_blank\">oral arguments\u003c/a> were dominated by the question of standing, which focused on whether the authors of Prop. 8 have the legal right to defend the measure in court when the state refused to do so. Justices also grappled over the meaning of marriage and what role the court system should have in changing long-held traditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The questions that justices ask can shed light on their concerns and how they might rule. KQED spoke with Vikram Amar, a professor of law at UC Davis, about what certain arguments could mean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Standing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Amar:\u003c/strong> I thought there were three, maybe four, maybe five justices already who expressed significant skepticism about whether the sponsors have standing to defend Prop. 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only Justice Scalia seemed to ask questions that supported the standing of the sponsors. But Justice Ginsburg and Justice Kagan and Justice Roberts and then, at the end, Justice Kennedy, when he said there was a substantial question over standing. All of them intimated that this may not be an appropriate vehicle for federal courts to weigh in, because the sponsors don’t really have a direct tie to the people and voters of California as to be able to step in their shoes, and speak for the state, when the attorney general and the governor declined to defend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is at least a very good chance that this case will get resolved on standing grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interestingly, the liberal justices, as I said, Justice Ginsburg, Justice Kagan, Justice Breyer, asked a lot of questions that suggested that they were skeptical of the sponsor standing. That is a signal to me that they would rather let Prop. 8 die a California-specific death on standing grounds, because if there’s no standing, then basically the Ninth Circuit decision is wiped out, and the plaintiffs will win a narrow victory in the district court. But, not necessarily [a win] that spills over to affect people from any other state, and maybe not even other same-sex couples in California, at least not for the moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Mr. Cooper, we have jurisdictional and merits issues here. Maybe it'd be best if you could begin with the standing issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MR. COOPER: I'd be happy to, Mr. Chief Justice. Your Honor, the official proponents of Proposition 8, the initiative, have standing to defend that measure before this Court as representatives of the people and the State of California to defend the validity of a measure that they brought forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JUSTICE GINSBURG: Have we ever granted standing to proponents of ballot initiatives?\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nMR. COOPER: No, Your Honor, the Court has not done that. But the Court has never had before it a clear expression from a unanimous State's high court that --\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JUSTICE KAGAN: -- could -- could the State assign to any citizen the rights to defend a judgment of this kind?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MR. COOPER: Justice Kagan, that would be a -- a very tough question. It's -- it's by no means the question before the Court, because -- because it isn't any citizen, it's -- it is the -- it is the official proponents that have a specific and -- and carefully detailed --\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JUSTICE KAGAN: Well, I just -- if you would on the hypothetical: Could a State just assign to\u003cbr>\nanybody the ability to do this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MR. COOPER: Your Honor, I think it very well might. It very well might be able to decide that any citizen could step forward and represent the interests of the State and the people in that State...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JUSTICE KENNEDY: But you're -- you're doing so in a -- in a case where the opinion is very narrow. Basically that once the State goes halfway, it has to go all the way or 70 percent of the way, and you're doing so in a case where there's a substantial question on -- on standing. I just wonder if -- if the case was properly granted.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Defining Marriage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Amar:\u003c/strong> When it comes to the merits, I think there was more of a full-throated rejection of the plaintiffs' challenge to Prop. 8 by the conservative justices, especially Justice Scalia, than there was a full-throated embrace of a national right to same sex-marriage by the liberals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s true that Justice Kagan asked (Yes on 8 Attorney) Chuck Cooper some difficult questions about regulation of people who are over 55 years of age and how does that relate to procreation, etc. But I didn’t hear the liberals kind of explain a national equal protection right, which they may embrace, but they didn’t use oral argument to put it out there the way Justice Scalia and other conservative justices kind of belittled the claim brought by the plaintiffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the things the arguments show -- this procreation defense of bans on same-sex marriage -- doesn’t really work that easily. It lends itself to a lot of easy, hypothetical rejoinders. And I think that the conservative justices who think that Prop. 8 is appropriate for the people of California to have passed, they in their questions, recast the issue focusing not just narrowly on procreation, but on caution more generally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>JUSTICE BREYER: Am I not clear? Look, you said that the problem is marriage; that it is an institution that furthers procreation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MR. COOPER: Yes, Your Honor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JUSTICE BREYER: And the reason there was adoption, but that doesn't apply to California. So imagine I wall off California and I'm looking just there, where you say that doesn't apply. Now, what happens to your argument about the institution of marriage as a tool towards procreation? Given the fact that, in California, too, couples that aren't gay but can't have children get married all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MR. COOPER: Yes, Your Honor. The concern is that redefining marriage as a genderless institution will sever its abiding connection to its historic traditional procreative purposes, and it will refocus, refocus the purpose of marriage and the definition of marriage away from the raising of children and to the emotional needs and desires of adults, of adult couples. Suppose, in turn --\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JUSTICE KAGAN: Well, suppose a State said, Mr. Cooper, suppose a State said that, Because we think that the focus of marriage really should be on procreation, we are not going to give marriage licenses anymore to any couple where both people are over the age of 55. Would that be constitutional?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MR. COOPER: No, Your Honor, it would not be constitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JUSTICE KAGAN: Because that's the same State interest, I would think, you know. If you are over the age of 55, you don't help us serve the Government's interest in regulating procreation through marriage. So why is that different?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MR. COOPER: Your Honor, even with respect to couples over the age of 55, it is very rare that both couples -- both parties to the couple are infertile, and the traditional --\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>- Laughter -\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is Marriage a Fundamental Right?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Amar:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Loving\u003c/em> was a 1967 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down Virginia’s ban on interracial marriage. It kept coming up because the challengers to Prop. 8 have really evoked \u003cem>Loving\u003c/em> and the interracial marriage setting as an analogy: That just as it was legitimate for the court to tell states that they could not ban marriages between races, so, too, it’s appropriate to tell states that they cannot ban marriages between gays and lesbians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people who oppose the challenge, the defenders of Prop. 8, Chuck Cooper, they really think that \u003cem>Loving\u003c/em> is more a case about race than it was about marriage. They also would note that in 1967, when the Supreme Court decided \u003cem>Loving\u003c/em>, there were only about a dozen or so states that continued to prohibit interracial marriage. Whereas 40 states or so continue to prohibit same-sex marriage. So the backdrop against which the Supreme Court nationalized a right to interracial marriage in 1967 might be considered different than today’s backdrop. Something the court kind of hinted at a number of times when they talked about whether this issue should percolate a little in the states before the Supreme Court weighs in, in a definitive fashion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Same-sex couples have every other right, it's just about the label.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MR. OLSON: The label \"marriage\" means something. Even our opponents --\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: If you tell a child that somebody has to be their friend, I suppose you can force the child to say, this is my friend, but it changes the definition of what it means to be a friend. And that's it seems to me what the -- what supporters of Proposition 8 are saying here. You're -- all you're interested in is the label and you insist on changing the definition of the label.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MR. OLSON: It is like you were to say you can vote, you can travel, but you may not be a citizen. There are certain labels in this country that are very, very critical. You could have said in the \u003cem>Loving\u003c/em> case, what -- you can't get married, but you can have an interracial union. Everyone would know that that was wrong, that the -- marriage has a status, recognition, support, and you -- if you read the test, you know --\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: How do we know -- how do we know that that's the reason, or a necessary part of the reason, that we've recognized marriage as a fundamental right? That's -- you've emphasized that and you've said, well, it's because of the emotional commitment. Maybe it is the procreative aspect that makes it a fundamental right.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why Now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Amar:\u003c/strong> I think the best defense of Prop. 8, if there is a good defense, is that states have the right to be cautious when they’re tampering with an institution that’s 2,000 or more years old. Justice Kennedy talked about how long marriage has remained the way it is. Justice Alito said, you know, same sex-marriage is a newer institution than cell phones or the Internet, and you’re telling us we have to nationalize it right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>JUSTICE ALITO: You want us to assess the effects of same-sex marriage, the potential effects on -- of same-sex marriage, the potential -- the effects of Proposition 8. But what is your response to the argument which has already been mentioned about the need to be cautious in light of the newness of the -- the concept of -- of same-sex marriage. The one thing that the parties in this case seem to agree on is that marriage is very important. It's thought to be a fundamental building block of society and its preservation essential for the preservation of society. Traditional marriage has been around for thousands of years. Same-sex marriage is very new. I think it was first adopted in The Netherlands in 2000. So there isn't a lot of data about its effect. And it may turn out to be a -- a good thing; it may turn out not to be a good thing, as the supporters of Proposition 8 apparently believe. But you want us to step in and render a decision based on an assessment of the effects of this institution which is newer than cell phones or the Internet? I mean we -- we are not -- we do not have the ability to see the future. On a question like that, of such fundamental importance, why should it not be left for the people, either acting through initiatives and referendums or through their elected public officials?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When Did Same-Sex Marriage Become Illegal?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Amar:\u003c/strong> The rhetorical point Justice Scalia is trying to make is that if we would say that it did not violate the Constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage 50 years ago, and it does so today, isn’t it odd that the meaning of the Constitution, whose words haven’t changed since 1868, would evolve?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Scalia) is what we call an originalist and textualist. He wants to interpret the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment by reference to what it meant in 1868. Not by reference to modern notions of social meaning and social science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>JUSTICE SCALIA: Was it always unconstitutional?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MR. OLSON: It was constitutional when we -- as a culture determined that sexual orientation is a characteristic of individuals that they cannot control, and that that --\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JUSTICE SCALIA: I see. When did that happen? When did that happen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MR. OLSON: There's no specific date in time. This is an evolutionary cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JUSTICE SCALIA: Well, how am I supposed to know how to decide a case, then --\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MR. OLSON: Because the case that's before you --\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JUSTICE SCALIA: -- if you can't give me a date when the Constitution changes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MR. OLSON: -- in -- the case that's before you today, California decided -- the citizens of California decided, after the California Supreme Court decided that individuals had a right to get married irrespective of their sexual orientation in California, and then the Californians decided in Proposition 8, wait a minute, we don't want those people to be able to get married.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: So -- so your case -- your case would be different if Proposition 8 was enacted into law prior to the California Supreme Court decision?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MR. OLSON: I would make -- I would make the -- also would make the -- that distinguishes it in one respect. But also -- also -- I would also make the argument, Mr. Chief Justice, that we are -- this -- marriage is a fundamental right and we are making a classification based upon a status of individuals, which this Court has repeatedly decided that gays and lesbians are defined by their status. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only Justice Scalia seemed to ask questions that supported the standing of the sponsors. But Justice Ginsburg and Justice Kagan and Justice Roberts and then, at the end, Justice Kennedy, when he said there was a substantial question over standing. All of them intimated that this may not be an appropriate vehicle for federal courts to weigh in, because the sponsors don’t really have a direct tie to the people and voters of California as to be able to step in their shoes, and speak for the state, when the attorney general and the governor declined to defend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is at least a very good chance that this case will get resolved on standing grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interestingly, the liberal justices, as I said, Justice Ginsburg, Justice Kagan, Justice Breyer, asked a lot of questions that suggested that they were skeptical of the sponsor standing. That is a signal to me that they would rather let Prop. 8 die a California-specific death on standing grounds, because if there’s no standing, then basically the Ninth Circuit decision is wiped out, and the plaintiffs will win a narrow victory in the district court. But, not necessarily [a win] that spills over to affect people from any other state, and maybe not even other same-sex couples in California, at least not for the moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Mr. Cooper, we have jurisdictional and merits issues here. Maybe it'd be best if you could begin with the standing issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MR. COOPER: I'd be happy to, Mr. Chief Justice. Your Honor, the official proponents of Proposition 8, the initiative, have standing to defend that measure before this Court as representatives of the people and the State of California to defend the validity of a measure that they brought forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JUSTICE GINSBURG: Have we ever granted standing to proponents of ballot initiatives?\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nMR. COOPER: No, Your Honor, the Court has not done that. But the Court has never had before it a clear expression from a unanimous State's high court that --\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JUSTICE KAGAN: -- could -- could the State assign to any citizen the rights to defend a judgment of this kind?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MR. COOPER: Justice Kagan, that would be a -- a very tough question. It's -- it's by no means the question before the Court, because -- because it isn't any citizen, it's -- it is the -- it is the official proponents that have a specific and -- and carefully detailed --\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JUSTICE KAGAN: Well, I just -- if you would on the hypothetical: Could a State just assign to\u003cbr>\nanybody the ability to do this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MR. COOPER: Your Honor, I think it very well might. It very well might be able to decide that any citizen could step forward and represent the interests of the State and the people in that State...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JUSTICE KENNEDY: But you're -- you're doing so in a -- in a case where the opinion is very narrow. Basically that once the State goes halfway, it has to go all the way or 70 percent of the way, and you're doing so in a case where there's a substantial question on -- on standing. I just wonder if -- if the case was properly granted.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Defining Marriage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Amar:\u003c/strong> When it comes to the merits, I think there was more of a full-throated rejection of the plaintiffs' challenge to Prop. 8 by the conservative justices, especially Justice Scalia, than there was a full-throated embrace of a national right to same sex-marriage by the liberals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s true that Justice Kagan asked (Yes on 8 Attorney) Chuck Cooper some difficult questions about regulation of people who are over 55 years of age and how does that relate to procreation, etc. But I didn’t hear the liberals kind of explain a national equal protection right, which they may embrace, but they didn’t use oral argument to put it out there the way Justice Scalia and other conservative justices kind of belittled the claim brought by the plaintiffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the things the arguments show -- this procreation defense of bans on same-sex marriage -- doesn’t really work that easily. It lends itself to a lot of easy, hypothetical rejoinders. And I think that the conservative justices who think that Prop. 8 is appropriate for the people of California to have passed, they in their questions, recast the issue focusing not just narrowly on procreation, but on caution more generally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>JUSTICE BREYER: Am I not clear? Look, you said that the problem is marriage; that it is an institution that furthers procreation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MR. COOPER: Yes, Your Honor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JUSTICE BREYER: And the reason there was adoption, but that doesn't apply to California. So imagine I wall off California and I'm looking just there, where you say that doesn't apply. Now, what happens to your argument about the institution of marriage as a tool towards procreation? Given the fact that, in California, too, couples that aren't gay but can't have children get married all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MR. COOPER: Yes, Your Honor. 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