Edwin Meese, III: Stacking the Deck Against Proposition 8

Former Attorney Gen. Edwin Meese, III writes at the NY Times: “The entire premise of this litigation is disquieting — that traditional marriage is nothing but ‘the residue of centuries of figurative and literal gay bashing,’ as David Boies, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, has written . . . It’s disquieting that the trial is taking place in San Francisco, probably the venue most likely to support gay marriage . . . But most disquieting for supporters of traditional marriage is a series of pretrial rulings issued by Judge Vaughn R. Walker that have the effect of putting the sponsors of Proposition 8, and the people who voted for it, on trial.”