Reporter a special unit which investigates Domestic Violence cases in which officers are victims or suspects looked into the case for five to six weeks. Craig morgan believes there was charges. Had the prosecuting unit involvement and her cooperation. Reporter but the girlfriend decided not to prosecute and the case was dropped. My impression is just she didnt want to go forward. Reporter and prosecutors felt the video alone wasnt enough evidence. Hear things but you dont know what they are because you cant see them. Reporter the undercover cop may not be in the clear. Internal affairs is investigating. We take any incident, whether it involves a Police Officer or anybody, we take all instances of Domestic Violence very seriously. Reporter i spoke with the police chief and he stressed that the officer did not receive any special treatment and is the internal afairs investigation should be wrapped fairs investigation should be wrapped up by next week. It was a Deadly Police chase that e
But this court also recognized, for example, in justice oconnellers, applying the same analysis to marriage, theres a difference between private conduct and public recognition when you think about the fundamental right thats at issue. This court has to look at the guide post the Supreme Court has recognized. The reason for that goes back to the importance of democracy in our system. This is something where the most basic right we have as a people is to decide Public Policy questions on your own and we can do that by amending the constitution, but it shouldnt be up to the courts to take these out of the hands of people. And it seems particularly interesting here where there does seem to be a particular trend that the political that society is moving in. So, it may this is one of the points and one of the descents in windsor, but it recognizes that the victory that is earned through the political process a truer victory. And it deprives to the court deprives people an honest victory and
I am not a member of the nsa team and i do not apologize for that to anyone. Thank you for your time and i look forward to the question and answer. Over the next few hours or cspan 3, well look at federal cases in the National Supreme court. Up next, oral arguments from a lawsuit transmissioning michigans bang ban on gay marriages. After that, oral argument and American Civil Liberties union versus clapper on the National Security agencys collection of americans phone records. And the conversation on cameras and the court, and other issues of Supreme Court transparency, and later, a discussion on judicial independence. On monday, the Supreme Court decided not the hear michigan was not among those states so its ban on samesex marriage was not affected. Up next on cspan 3, the oral argument on michigans ban on gay marriage. Whether a District Court can disregard a directly namely baker versus nelson, and the bigger picture, its about what federal rights in the creation of a new federal c
More for the aging and dying. Sunday after 7 00, naomi kline on capitalism and the impact on climate change. On American History tv, the curator and director of the museum in virginia, tony explains the museums mission of preserving and presenting the agencys history and saturday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern, the king georges war of the 1740s and how it helped establish regional identities and how it gave fighting experience for their own revolution. Sunday night on the presidency at 8 00 p. M. , president forts pardon me on the nixon pardon. Find our schedule at cspan. Org and let us know what you think. Call us or email us. Or send us a tweet at cspan comments. Like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. A panel in since natty heard oral arguments on the constitutionality on the samesex marriage ban. They have yet to issue the decision in the case. On monday, the Supreme Court decided not to hear cases involving gay marriage bans in other states. Michigan was not among the states so the b
I guess its just odd to me that state legislatures dont get a little bit of the benefit of the doubt in terms of when the pacing is right for them. Ms. Stanyar again, in michigan it doesnt matter what the legislators do anymore. Its a constitutional ban. Judge sutton four of the states did this through initiatives. In other words, four of the states ruled that it came out the right way in your clients perspective through initiatives. Initiatives are just as effective as legislation on this point. Ms. Stanyar ourselves would have to be repealed. We talked about that already. In addition, judge freedman found that the constitution is for the here and now. This court doesnt have the luxury of dodging a constitutional dodging a constitutional challenge. I understand that the court in perry didnt decide the ultimate question. The court looks to be telegraphing in windsor in terms of some doctrinal change, and if the court was intending on telegraphing, it worked. But 20 straight decisions w