Another one for you voters. That thoseake sure toolkits talk about not only registering the vote, what is going on the local communities, that they also talk about making sure that people stay engaged, because the problem is the reason people dont want to go to the polls is because they get disgusted putting people in office who dont do what they were promised to do. They get angry that they are not making sure their children are having the best education. They get upset when the mayor is not holding the police force accountable. Let me interject. Thats why we have to make sure we hold people accountable and that we engage in this process all the time. Greathink you make a point. Thank you ray much. Thank you very much. We throughout the word account of early all the time. Why arent we holding mayors accountable . Why arent we Holding State legislatures accountable . In cities that have 2000 churches, very few of those members attend city council meetings. Activees where we have organi
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
May it please the court. For 50 years the Supreme Court has recognize that the freedom of personal choice in matters of marriage and family life are libertied protected by due process. April and jane have a constitutional right to share a life, to marry, to form a family, to raise their children. We show in this case that no matter what standard of scrutiny the court uses, no matter what doctrine the court applies, the state cant prevail here. The michigan marriage amendment is unconstitutional. A starting disagreement between the parties as the court has already observed, is an articulation of the right itself, its the right to marry i realize before windsor, the first and Second Circuit said that baker is binding, post wind sorry, theres no majority recognizing that, i have to say, i find that a very serious issue, the thing thats coming on is you, oddly enough, we treat some reversals as binding precedent no less than a fully written opinion. Everyone understands thats true, theres
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