At a news conference this afternoon, President Obama was asked about his administration's amicus brief to the Supreme Court urging it to strike down Proposition 8.
The specific question presented before the Court right now is whether Prop 8 and the California law is unconstitutional and what we've done is we've put forward a basic principle which applies to all equal protection cases. Whenever a particular group is being discriminated against, the court asks the question, what is the rational for this. And it better be a good reason. And if you don't have a good reason, we're going to strike it down.
Watch, AFTER THE JUMP…
And be sure to check out our legal expert Ari Ezra Waldman's ANALYSIS of the brief HERE.
(via think progress)
