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...bipartisan duo is exactly right. Based on previous rulings by the Supreme Court, Prop 8 violates the Constitution’s guarantee that a state cannot “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” But even more strikingly, if the Court upholds Prop 8, the ramifications would be much more devastating than a speed bump on the road to civil equality. If they affirm that Prop 8 and the Fourteenth Amendment are not mutually exclusive, they would, effectively, overturn the landmark decision in 1967 that made bans on interracial...
...somber. But the company manages to employ the staid dignity of the room to reinforce the moral severity of the town elders. At one point, they even co-opt one of the chandeliers—by far the most physically obtrusive element of the space—as a prop...
...Continuing to let the market participants mix agency activity with prop trading is like letting my aunt Agnes play center in Sunday's Super Bowl game," says Elvin Riley, a professor who specialized in securities trading at Seton Hall University's Stillman School of Business. "There is no regulation against it, and the ratings might go up, but it is such a bad idea...
...band of approximately 30 Tea Party activists, upset with politicians of all stripes, but especially liberals, waved signs against health care reform and out-of-control federal spending. The conservative protesters unfurled their banners and hoisted placards that read "Give Harry the boot" (with a real boot as a prop; and that would be Harry Mitchell, the local Democratic Congressman) and "Stop the Corrupt Health Care Bill - Drug Test Congress." (See pictures of Tea Party protest signs...
...plaintiffs called more than a dozen witnesses, including the two gay couples who are the plaintiffs, to speak about the importance of marriage, its impact on children and the role religion played in the campaign for Prop 8. The defense called just two witnesses, who attempted to show that marriage is fundamental to human society and that it has nearly always been limited to one man and one woman. Boies, who led an often blistering cross-examination, wrung concessions from those witnesses that thrilled gay-marriage supporters, including a statement that allowing gay marriage would help the children already being...