REVISE - RE: Patt Morrison Thurs 3/5 - see Shannon Minter

 

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Thursday, March 5, 2009

1-3 p.m.

 

1:00 – 1:30

Proposition 8 has its Day in Court

Both sides go at it in three hours of argument today to determine whether a voter initiative that changed the constitution to ban gay marriage is valid. They present those arguments before the same California Supreme Court justices who less than a year ago said there is no constitutional bar to same sex marriage. We hear from a reporter who was inside the courtroom and two legal scholars, who will explain both sides’ reasoning.

 

Guests:

Maura Dolan, LA Times reporter covering the arguments.  She talks with us from outside the courtroom.

 

Mark Rosenbaum, Legal Director of the Southern California ACLU (AGAINST UPHOLDING PROP 8)

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• He helped frame and write the legal challenge to Prop. 8 that will be argued on March 5 by a coalition of civil-rights groups for which the ACLU is a co-counsel

 

John Eastman, Dean of Chapman University's School of Law (FOR UPHOLDING PROP 8)

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• He wrote a legal brief in the case.

 

 

 

1:30 – 2:00

OPEN

 

 

[NPR NEWS]

 

2:00 – 2:30

Proposition 8: Lead Counsel Speaks

As the California Supreme Court breaks for the day after hearing arguments for and against overturning Prop 8, the ban on same-sex marriage passed in last November's election, we check in with the lead counsel for both sides. What were their arguments and how were they received?

 

Guest:

NO ON UPHOLDING PROP 8

Shannon Minter (MR.), lead counsel who will present the oral argument against upholding Prop 8. He is legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights in San Francisco. He was a lead counsel in the state Supreme Court case decided last May that allowed same-sex couples to marry, a ruling that was reversed in November when voters approved Proposition 8.

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YES ON UPHOLDING PROP 8

Andrew Pugno (POON-yoh), co-counsel to Kenneth Starr, who will be presenting the arguments that Proposition 8 is the will of the people and should be upheld. (Pugno will not be addressing the court himself.)  He was general counsel for The Yes on 8 campaign.

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2:30 – 2:40

OPEN

 

 

 

2:40 – 3:00

The Long Reach of the Black Hand

There’s an army of 60,000 heavily armed soldiers that more-or-less control California’s prison system and a large part of organized crime in our state, yet manages to stay out of the headlines.  The Mexican Mafia, in spite of its name, is an American creation that continues to thrive and adapt to new law enforcement tactics and to the changing nature of the drug trade into the U.S.  Chris Blatchford’s book “The Black Hand” traces the history of “La Eme” through the rise of Rene Boxer Enriquez, who rose from a Mexican Mafia enforcer in East L.A. to a mob leader.  Chris charts the growth of a mob organization that may ultimately be more influential than the Italian mafia.

 

Guests:

Chris Blatchford, author of “The Black Hand”; Fox 11 News correspondent

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