the pressure of society, the pressure of social media and what is happening in our court system and when our court system at the state level decides to cave to that pressure. the appellate court or supreme court has to step in and say we can t let it happen. courts are the last line of defense to uphold our rights. martha: a great point. geraldo touched on this moments ago. jonathan essentially saying that movements take on a life of their own. we cannot allow the momentum of a movement like that, which may incite a lot of emotion and well-founded passion on the part of a lot of people to infringe upon a judge s judgment or a prosecutor s judgment in terms of how a case is handled because then in the end, they might subvert their own ability to carry out that case. i think that s right. people have to put a check on the sort of recreational
deference on are facts. what this judge did was synced himself to other courts from kansas to california and whatever. gay parents are just as good as straight parents. he cited other district court cases. he s creating a web or a net that it s going to be very hard for an appellate court or supreme court to supersede. essentially trying to say those questions of fact whether or not gay people can be good parents, those questions of fact are being settled around the country all in the same direction. and so what we re going to be argues about at the appellate level is constitutional issues and not the factual matters. i would hang a caveat on that. unless i get hammered by my colleagues out there. there is a legislative fact.
he s creating a web or a net that it s going to be very hard for an appellate court or supreme court to supersede. essentially trying to say those questions of fact whether or not gay people can be good parents, those questions of fact are being settled around the country all in the same direction. and so what we re going to be argues about at the appellate level is constitutional issues and not the factual matters. i would hang a caveat on that. unless i get hammered by my colleagues out there. there is a legislative fact. some would argue that the latter, gay parents are just as good as straight parents, they all deserve as much deafer answer from the court. was the light red, green? that hasn t been settled by the supreme court. the more that these cases stack up, how does the supreme court know? how does the law know? often times it knows by gathering facts to itself. at the insulated body, one of ways it gathers facts is by deferring to the lower courts. with all of these co