“Prop. 8 backers ask for permanent hold on same-sex marriage ruling; In an emergency appeal, they contend that Judge Vaughn R. Walker’s ruling overturning California’s gay marriage ban flouted the law and ignored the evidence”: Maura Dolan has this article today in The Los Angeles Times.
Today in The San Jose Mercury News, Howard Mintz has an article headlined “Prop. 8 case: Appeals court considering whether to keep same-sex marriage on hold.”
And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Prop. 8: Who speaks for California?”
In jurisprudence essays available online at Slate: Dahlia Lithwick has an essay entitled “What Will Anthony Kennedy Do on Gay Marriage? It’s the question driving the entire Prop 8 train.”
And Emily Bazelon has an essay entitled “The Best Way for Proposition 8 To Lose: Let’s cheer if gay marriage opponents decide not to appeal–but not if they can’t.”
“Radio Host Is Convicted for Comments on Judges”: The New York Times today contains an article that begins, “A right-wing Internet radio host was convicted on Friday by a federal jury in Brooklyn of threatening three federal judges who had issued a ruling he disagreed with.”
The New York Daily News reports today that “Conservative Internet shock jock Harold (Hal) Turner convicted of threatening to kill Chicago judges.”
The New York Post reports that “Radio shock-jock convicted for threatening the lives of three judges.”
The Jersey Journal reports that “Hal Turner, North Bergen Internet shock jock, convicted of death threat charge.”
The Bergen County Record reports that “North Bergen shock jock Hal Turner guilty of threatening judges in blog post.”
The Associated Press reports that “NJ blogger convicted of threatening Ill. judges.”
Bloomberg News reports that “Internet Radio Host Turner Convicted of Threatening Lives of Three Judges.”
And Mark Fass of New York Law Journal reports that “In Third Trial, Blogger Found Guilty of Threatening 7th Circuit Judges.”