Unfortunately I don't think today's Supreme Court hearing on the validity of Prop 8 went very well. I thought a lot of the oral arguments made on behalf of the No on 8 side were tentative and embarrassingly awkward. California Deputy Attorney General Krueger seemed completely out of his league, stammering and adding "ya know" into every other sentence. Mercifully, Chief Deputy Attorney Therese Stewart from San Francisco was articulate, assertive and held her own against repeated grilling from Justice Joyce Kennard. And, you have to admit that Ken Starr earned his Yes on 8 salary today, even though he was almost condescending in his replies to the bench. It seems that Justice Kennard is poised to reverse her earlier vote in support of marriage equality, swinging the court to a 4-3 vote against us. I don't think things bode well for the ruling, expected in the next 90 days.
From the Los Angeles Times:
"The California Supreme Court appeared ready today to vote to uphold Proposition 8, the November ballot measure that banned gay marriage, but also seemed ready to decide unanimously to recognize existing same-sex marriages. During a three-hour televised hearing in San Francisco, only two of the court's seven justices indicated a possible readiness to overturn the initiative. Chief Justice Ronald M. George noted that the court was following a different Constitution when it approved gay marriage last May. "Today we have a different state Constitution," he said. Justice Joyce L. Kennard, who usually votes in favor of gay rights, voted against accepting the revision challenge to Proposition 8 but said she would hear arguments over the validity of existing same-sex marriages. Kennard said during the hearing that 'Prop. 8 did not take away the whole bundle of rights that this court articulated in the marriage case.'"