Judicial pedantry saves gay marriage in San Fran

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Firsthand account of the gay marriage
rush at San Fran city hall

Firsthand account of the gay marriage
rush at San Fran city hall 02/15/2004 09:18 AM
My colleague Seth Schoen took a walk yesterday down to the San Francisco city hall and watched the hundreds of lesbian and gay couple in various states of marriage. His first-person account is touching and sent a shiver up my spine.

We walked around the side of the line and saw hundreds of same-sex couples in all states of dress (punk to tuxedo to family heirloom dress to just-off-the-street-in-work-attire). One couple wore yarmulkes and carried a siddur; another couple looked like ordained ministers, but I didn't know for sure of which Christian denomination. (It must be one willing to ordain gay women.) At the back of City Hall, the line was making its way through the door past a group of about half a dozen well-wishers with big pink signs. They looked like high school students. One of them was carrying an American flag with gay rights symbols in place of the stars. (Oddly enough, San Francisco regular Frank Chu was demonstrating too, with his usual sign that had nothing to do with same-sex marriage -- instead about galaxies, a rocket society, and impeaching former U.S. presidents. I was pretty sure he was just trying to get on TV with his message. You see him frequently in the Financial District.)...

Zack and I applauded for the couples as they were married, and shook hands with them. The couples were as diverse in age as they were in dress: I saw a pair of women get married and was sure they were younger than I am. And I saw and was most touched by several weddings of people who had likely been waiting even longer than 18 years. Two women of my mother's age, or a little older, were married right in front of me, and they started to cry. I almost started to cry, too.

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Reading from the Bible on the floor of
the Senate on Tuesday, Sen. Orrin Hatch
endorsed a federal judicial nominee who
wrote that wives should have a
subordinate role in marriage, with the
Utah Republican emphasizing
“millions and millions of peopl

Reading from the Bible on the floor of
the Senate on Tuesday, Sen. Orrin Hatch
endorsed a federal judicial nominee who
wrote that wives should have a
subordinate role in marriage, with the
Utah Republican emphasizing
“millions and millions of peopl 07/09/2004 04:52 AM

166.70.44.66/2004/Jul/07072004/utah/181590.asp
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Prenuptial Jitters - Did gay marriage
destroy heterosexual marriage in
Scandinavia? By M.V. Lee Badgett

Prenuptial Jitters - Did gay marriage
destroy heterosexual marriage in
Scandinavia? By M.V. Lee Badgett 05/23/2004 01:53 AM
Did gay marriage destroy straight marriage in Scandanavia? .. Scandinavian countries .. are completely bogus .. The other piece .. current Slate .. piece

slate.msn.com/id/2100884
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Gay marriage compared to box-turtle
marriage in Senate, Daily Show replies

Gay marriage compared to box-turtle
marriage in Senate, Daily Show replies 07/19/2004 02:52 AM
In a fit of astonishing lunacy, Texas Senator John Cornyn tried to explain the need to ban gay marriage in the context of the social harm that would accrue from allowing men to marry box turtles ("It does not affect your daily life very much if your neighbor marries a box turtle, but that does not mean it is right...Now you must raise you children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife"). Jon Stewart's Daily Show segment on this statement is nothing short of brilliant. Let's hope it gets enough airplay to cost Cornyn the election (and possibly get him institutionalized somewhere...). Realplayer link (via Vertical Hold)

San Fran, OK

San Fran, OK 06/26/2004 05:44 PM
I had an interesting Friday, up and down the Peninsula and with lots of tasty flavors...

G O P.com :: Totally San Fran

G O P.com :: Totally San Fran 05/22/2004 04:03 AM
17 Years Of San Francisco Liberalism .. Here they go again .. RNC Pelosi File

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San Fran out front

San Fran out front 04/14/2005 04:09 AM
Usatoday.com - Wed Apr 13, 08:13 pm GMT

Upcoming Gig: April in San Fran

Upcoming Gig: April in San Fran 03/22/2005 03:19 PM
On April 11th I’ll be doing a “Keynote Debate” with Jean Paoli and Jon Udell at the Gilbane Content Management Technologies conference (what a long name). Some of the press coverage is trying to spin this as a “My office XML is better than yours” debate, which seems lame to me, there’s plenty to debate about the right way to put markup to work without getting into boring product specifics.

Newlyweds March in San Fran Gay Parade
(AP)

Newlyweds March in San Fran Gay Parade
(AP) 06/27/2004 04:25 PM
AP - The party still had its traditional leather-clad legions and dramatic drag queens, but Sunday's gay pride parade featured marchers even more radical — married same-sex couples.

ETCON in five-minute chunks in San Fran
and London, Monday

ETCON in five-minute chunks in San Fran
and London, Monday 02/13/2004 01:18 PM
If you missed ETCON, it's not too late -- ConCons are planned for next Monday in San Francisco and London, at which many of the ETCON speakers and attendees will recapitulate their ETCON talks as five minute lightning talks, with beer, in bars.

If you saw some good stuff at etech and want to tell people - or spoke at etech and want to retell your work to a wider audience, sign up below. Then force other people you know to do the same. The more people we have, the less you'll have to do!

The format is a casual, five-minute lightning talk with a friendly audience, with the emphasis less on five minutes and more on questions and answers. We'll just go through names until we run out of time. Then we'll have fun.

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Despite Fewer Exhibitors, Expo Happy
With San Fran Show

Despite Fewer Exhibitors, Expo Happy
With San Fran Show 01/09/2004 09:57 PM
By Bryan Chaffin (Mac Observer via MyAppleMenu)

Colour Order Systems in Art and Science
(English, Français, German)

Colour Order Systems in Art and Science
(English, Français, German) 11/10/2003 11:36 PM
Colour Order Systems in Art and Science .. The Virtual Colour Museum ..

colorsystem.com/index.htm
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apophenia: judicial theatre

apophenia: judicial theatre 12/26/2004 10:43 AM
danah weighs in

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When Judicial Lips Are Sealed

When Judicial Lips Are Sealed 08/22/2004 11:08 PM
Sad to say, there are two things that, as a judge, I can't talk about in public (and this is in public). One is pending cases, which means (in any court, not just mine) cases in which all possibilities of further proceedings, such as an appeal to the Supreme Court,...

Doing the math on judicial nominees

Doing the math on judicial nominees 04/12/2005 10:56 AM
The Senate confirms Bush's 205th judge.

Judicial Fascism Approaching

Judicial Fascism Approaching 12/22/2004 01:01 AM
Now that it looks like Bush will get to name someone to the Supreme Court, it's instructive to see what he considers to be a good current Court example. He's spoken approvingly many times of Scalia and Thomas. Now, Scalia,...

Practicing without a license and other
judicial fun

Practicing without a license and other
judicial fun 06/21/2004 02:20 PM

"Judicial Extremism and the Constitution
in Exile"

"Judicial Extremism and the Constitution
in Exile" 04/18/2005 03:10 PM

Song-swapping to face judicial test

Song-swapping to face judicial test 03/28/2005 10:31 AM
USA Today Mar 28 2005 1:46PM GMT

A good example of why we need judicial
review when people are imprisoned

A good example of why we need judicial
review when people are imprisoned 12/12/2003 08:02 AM
As this NYT article makes clear, the case against imprisoned Army Capitan and Muslim Chaplain Yee gets thinner by the day, and provides abundant evidence for why nobody should have the unchallengeable power to imprison people on their word alone. Capitan Yee was held in solitary confinement and threatened with the death penalty, and we were told he was guilty of espionage and stealing classified documents. Then the government said he was guilty of adultery and pornography, now it turns out that the documents he had that made the customs inspector suspicious may not have been classified after all. This is the same government that claims the power to declare American citizen enemy combatants and imprison them for life. What do you think that Captain Yee's status would be today if he didn't have access to lawyers and judicial review of his case? I bet he'd be sitting alone in a dark cell, perhaps being beaten like some of the 911 detainees, and threatened with death unless he "confessed." Access to attorneys and meaningful judicial review for anyone imprisoned by the government is the only course that is consistent with the best of American values. Plus it's the law and the Constitution....

File-swapping to face judicial test

File-swapping to face judicial test 03/28/2005 12:56 PM
USA Today Mar 28 2005 5:07PM GMT

Beijing's judicial files concerning IPOs
available on Internet

Beijing's judicial files concerning IPOs
available on Internet 10/31/2003 09:27 AM
Xinhuanet Oct 31 2003 8:37AM ET

Chip Implanted in Mexico Judicial
Workers

Chip Implanted in Mexico Judicial
Workers 07/14/2004 06:51 PM
AP via Los Angeles Times Jul 14 2004 11:46PM GMT

Citizen enemy combatants have a right to
judicial review

Citizen enemy combatants have a right to
judicial review 06/29/2004 11:44 PM
In a decision which will come as a massive relief to civil libertarians, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled today that United States citizens detained as enemy combatants have the right to challenge their classification in court, and sent the case of Hamdi v. Rumsfeld back to the district court with instructions to hear Hamdi's case and determine whether or not he was properly classified as an enemy combatant. As a necessary condition for that ruling, the Court also ruled that the administration could detain US citizens who were captured in a combat zone (and who were supporting an opposing army within that zone) until the conclusion of the conflict. (A related case, involving a US citizen apprehended at an airport and held as an enemy combatant, was dismissed on the procedural ground that the case had been brought in the wrong district court; the petitioner, Jose Pedilla, will probably file a new case in the correct court shortly).

Chip Implanted in Mexico Judicial
Workers (AP)

Chip Implanted in Mexico Judicial
Workers (AP) 07/14/2004 05:26 PM
AP - Security has reached the subcutaneous level for Mexico's attorney general and at least 160 people in his office — they have been implanted with microchips that get them access to secure areas of their headquarters.

Business Lobby to Get Behind Judicial
Bids (Los Angeles Times)

Business Lobby to Get Behind Judicial
Bids (Los Angeles Times) 01/06/2005 06:53 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — A powerful business lobby is preparing a multimillion-dollar campaign to aid the White House in its quest to win approval for conservative judges, a move that could transform the ideological battles over the federal judiciary and the Supreme Court.

Judicial Watch: Kerry once took
laundered funds - PittsburghLIVE.com

Judicial Watch: Kerry once took
laundered funds - PittsburghLIVE.com 09/06/2004 11:00 AM
Pittsburgh Tribune Review .. attention

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U.S. Congress attempts to nullify
doctrine of judicial review

U.S. Congress attempts to nullify
doctrine of judicial review 07/25/2004 06:03 AM
So as of this Friday the media's reporting that the House has passed and forwarded to the Senate a bill, called the "Marriage Protection Act", that would "prevent federal courts from ordering states to recognize same-sex unions that took place in other states". Except, wait a minute, isn't that exactly what the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 did? So what's the point of this bill? Well, that's where things start to get interesting. If you go and look up this bill (H.R. 3313) on thomas.loc.gov, you'll find it actually amends the Defense of Marriage Act. And, in fact, all it does is add a single clause to the end of the DOMA, saying:`No court created by Act of Congress shall have any jurisdiction, and the Supreme Court shall have no appellate jurisdiction, to hear or decide any question pertaining to the interpretation of, or the validity under the Constitution of, section 1738C or this section.'.So, are you following this? This bill doesn't "prevent federal courts from ordering states to recognize same-sex unions that took place in other states", as Yahoo News puts it-- that's what the DOMA does. This bill does something much more interesting, and much more questionable: it bans the courts from ruling the DOMA unconstitutional.

Online file sharing to face judicial
test

Online file sharing to face judicial
test 03/28/2005 11:18 AM
Usatoday.com - Mon Mar 28, 09:48 am GMT

Bush judicial nominee has been
practicing law without a license for the
last four years

Bush judicial nominee has been
practicing law without a license for the
last four years 06/21/2004 05:28 PM
pathetic liberal media picks it up faithfully .. It turns out

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56413-2004Jun20.html
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Frist Set to Join Religious Effort on
Judicial Issue

Frist Set to Join Religious Effort on
Judicial Issue 04/14/2005 09:42 PM
Senator Bill Frist has agreed to participate in a telecast portraying Democrats as "against people of faith" for blocking President Bush's nominees.

I wonder if this will lead to a serious
challenge to Judicial Usurpation of
Democracy from the Executive Branch?

I wonder if this will lead to a serious
challenge to Judicial Usurpation of
Democracy from the Executive Branch? 12/21/2003 04:55 AM
In Debate on Antiterrorism, the Courts Assert Themselves

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Democrats Block a Seventh Bush Judicial
Nominee (Reuters)

Democrats Block a Seventh Bush Judicial
Nominee (Reuters) 07/20/2004 11:21 PM
Reuters - Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a seventh Bush administration judicial nominee and got ready to possibly stop an eighth, reigniting a partisan battle certain to intensify as November elections near.

Bush to Revive Failed Judicial
Nominations (Los Angeles Times)

Bush to Revive Failed Judicial
Nominations (Los Angeles Times) 12/24/2004 12:20 PM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — President Bush intends to renominate to federal judgeships 20 candidates who failed to win Senate approval during his first term, the White House said Thursday.

The New York Times > Washington > Frist
Set to Use Religious Stage on Judicial
Issue

The New York Times > Washington > Frist
Set to Use Religious Stage on Judicial
Issue 04/15/2005 11:41 PM

The Limits of 'Growth'; Justice O'Connor
becomes a full-fledged judicial activist

The Limits of 'Growth'; Justice O'Connor
becomes a full-fledged judicial activist 12/12/2003 09:12 AM
John Fund's Opinion Journal piece criticizing O'Connor .. grown into her dementia .. Sandy Grows

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village voice > news > Terri Schiavo:
Judicial Murder by Nat Hentoff

village voice > news > Terri Schiavo:
Judicial Murder by Nat Hentoff 03/30/2005 07:37 AM
Terri Schiavo: Judicial Murder .. Nat Hentoff on Terri Schiavo .. The Village Voice

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The New York Times > Washington
> Frist Set to Use Religious Stage
on Judicial Issue

The New York Times > Washington
> Frist Set to Use Religious Stage
on Judicial Issue 04/16/2005 06:50 PM
Times reports .. NYTimes

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"village voice > news > Terri Schiavo:
Judicial Murder by Nat Hentoff"

"village voice > news > Terri Schiavo:
Judicial Murder by Nat Hentoff" 03/30/2005 05:17 PM

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