entertained. make this my broadway. it s a matter of having jurors that are perceptive and insig insightful. one of the things about this jury, they re allowed to ask questions and that s important because it keeps them focused. and that s important because it becomes a point of when is enough enough. you have a prosecutor who is very good at cross-examination, if you are sleeping at examination, when he gets up, certainly you get up. it prevents them from focusing as they should. and you would hope the judge s gavel would also wake up anybody in court who needs to be listening. sunny hostin, joey just mentioned the jury questions which is again so unique and fascinating in the case. this jury has had literally hundreds of questions. i think it s 112 question for the psychologist and over 200 questions for jodi arias. what happens something they don t know when they forward those questions, those questions
and they re also not keen on the other side, across the courtroom, of prosecutors knowing either. defending someone for the death penalty is very, very expensive. as it should be. you need the best defense possible, right? the life is at stake. you can t get a do-over. at noon, the judge in the case is going to hear motions to keep the details of the costs from reaching public eye. maricopa county has forked over roughly $800,000 just for what s been billed so far. we re not even done yet. and, hey, if he s found guilty, that final amount could be so incredibly high. so much higher than just 800,000. the defense says any more information getting out like that could hurt jodi arias ability to get a fair trial. not just the numbers but the stuff that goes with the numbers. like where s the money going, what witnesses might end up in the defense case. you re tipping your hand to the other side, right?
this week. it seems like the justices are a bit like trog la dites living in a cave. they think this is new. this is an issue that is timid getting in front of rights. roe v. wade and brown are some of the most famous decisions but they also tended to rock the institution because they were blamed at making the decision that american people hadn t arrived at yet. and that s what some of these justices are referring to. but i need to caution you, many of these justices making these comments also were against lawrence v. texas. the decriminalization. a lot of these justices that i heard doesn t jibe well with that. many of the justices don t accept the fundamental protection that are being argued in the case. there is an intermediate possibility, by the way. okay.
case, mr. turley, going in and arguing for the government. but president obama said we re not going to defend doma. we re not agreeing with it. we re not going into court to do so. in essence, and correct me if i m wrong, it s the house republicans who have taken up that banner. and they have brought in their own former solicitor general to argue this case. is that the issue that house republicans can t stand up for the rest of the country? that s right. this is a very strange case because the obama administration was defending doma for years. and then essentially switched sides. and that left this gap, this vacuum, as to who would support this law. and the house republicans stood up and said we want to do it. now, i ve represented both democratic and republican members in challenging the libyan war and we were dismissed on standing because this court is very hostile towards what s called members standing. so they ve got a really long road to hoe here. and so for justices that are
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