the decision by the council can be any decision by the council. decide whether the procedures were correct or incorrect. the regional countries have influence and presence. not only coordination. they sometimes go beyond that. and i mentioned that the iraqi field has become a feel for struggle between states. iraqi blood and wealth. sometimes some countries think it s part of his national security center in iraqi affairs. we reject any intervention in the same way we reject to intervene in the affairs of others. comments or so by law. here in the back. to questions. seems to be in order to liberate areas under dash the long-term stability of those areas. i would like to know your assessment of the reach out to the sunnis. been slow too slow so far? whether the united states can do more to make sure there is as sunni force. do you believe the united states should arm directly? having a lot of talk about creating autonomous zones by kurdistan region a model of stability f
hink i did. in reality, it shouldn t. it shouldn t have taken justice powell to meet a gay person to be able to understand the pain. it shouldn t require a politician s son or daughter to be gay in order for them to re-evaluate it but those types of divisions now are in the past. the court here has this transcendent moment for everyone that says we need to recognize that these people have equal rights that they love each other and that they have a right for that love to be recognized in a marriage license. and you know as we talked about the cases in the past there aren t that many cases where the court has led the country on a divisive political question. but when it has, those have tended to be the legacy of the court. the reason we had a transcendent moment today was because of the change in the last 20 years. unthinkable even 10 years ago or 20 years ago when we were in school together that the supreme court would announce a decision like this or the president of the
he kept scouring the bridge from one end to the other and then began walking down a grassy area under the danziger bridge. nothing. it passed by another officer. good thing or not looking for a lawyer, the cop told her to go back into the bus and drove away from the bridge trying to put the puzzle out of his mind. it wasn t his investigation. it was natural to question issues. he returned to other duties. i didn t ask anybody anything. i didn t want to do. ask me questions and i will tell you know lies. but to some other witnesses started to come to the scene. one of them was he happened to be the morning taking pictures of the hotel for insurance purposes. is troubleshoot had two cameras. one in his hands and one in his pocket. when he turned out with a camera in his hands a police officer russia, took the camera and stomped it on the ground. three hours later, after the gunfire had quelled, the troubleshooter walked back outside. ronald madison s body remain
savage, supreme court correspondent for the los angeles times. host: professor kenji yoshino you have written a very interesting very thoughtful account of the 2010 trial in san francisco where to couples challenged california s ban on same-sex marriage. this was a trial that neither side wanted. tell us why you decided to go back and write a book now. guest at david first of all thank you so much for doing this interview. it s my great pleasure to be here today. i really got into thinking about this trial after chief judge ron walker issued his 136 page opinion with findings of fact on august the fourth of 2010 and i looked at that opinion and as somebody who has been working in the gay rights feel this opinion but different in kind from anything i had seen before. it s just thoughtfulness generally and so i asked my library and to pull the transcript of the trial and she came up with it in 13 volumes 2000 page transcript of the trial in closing arguments. when i first s
strategy to take this cost to the supreme court. they could wind up heroes or goats us back how much did you know about lgbt, had you reported on the lgbt civil rights movement before? guest: not extensively. host: what kind of reporting it to don? guest: a lot of legal reporting. host: on lgbt transferred no, no. on bush the door bush v. gore. i had written about constitutional law but not specifically about this issue except to the extent that i covered legislators, silly unions would come up. unions, legislation would come up in each of them and this is probably in the early 2000s. it s funny to think today, that was very controversial in these. so i covered these legislative battles over civil unions but certainly not the landmark cases that you were involved in. host: what kind of experience have you had with the lgbt civil rights movement? you ve talked a lot about the gay establishment. what kind of expense have had with the organizations that have been lea