Media Files Motion Seeking Release of Prop 8 Case Video
A group of media organizations filed a brief yesterday requesting the court unseal videotapes of the trial which successfully overturned California's Proposition 8, the AP reports:
The 13 organizations, which include The Associated Press, argued in a motion filed Monday with the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals that the videos are court records that the First Amendment requires to be open to the public. Sponsors of voter-approved Proposition 8 asked the 9th Circuit last week to keep the tapes sealed and to order the trial's presiding judge to return his personal copies.
The move came after now-retired Judge Vaughn Walker, who declared Proposition 8 unconstitutional, used a brief segment of the video in several public talks.
Read the brief, AFTER THE JUMP...
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Even from a pro Prop 8 perspective it seems that the tapes should be released. If a judge overturned a vote of the people then the people deserve and should DEMAND the right to see the arguments that were made on their behalf and the arguments that were made, and won, against them.
There is absolutely NO legitimate argument that can be made for withholding this information from the people. NONE! The illegitimate reason is because the pro Prop 8 people know that if the people see their arguments shot down, one by one, under oath, they will lose the only, and VERY effective, weapon that they have left; LYING.
NOM is going to regret the day that they filed the motion to have the tapes taken from Walker.
What we are seeing, more and more by the day, is the complete and utter unraveling of the anti-gay, anti-marriage-equality industrial complex.
Posted by: TampaZeke | Apr 19, 2011 11:11:40 AM
...and it's about damned time too!!!
Posted by: Bushsucks | Apr 19, 2011 10:04:28 PM