EDGE Providence

Activists & pundits of traditional marriage and marriage equality have found common ground on one thing: Attorney Charles Cooper was badly outgunned by marriage-equality’s All-Star line-up of David Boies and Ted Olson.

Among those attending the historic hearings on California’s Proposition 8 will be U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.’s lesbian cousin.

A group calling for a massive demonstration outside the Supreme Court to support two landmark marriage-equality cases goes against the principle that the court shouldn’t be influenced by public opinion.

More than 200 businesses, including Microsoft, Apple and Amazon, and 100 Republicans have signed briefs that urge the Supreme Court to strike down DOMA and Prop. 8.

Seventy-five top ranking Republicans are to file a Supreme Court brief that supports the overturning of Proposition 8 and states that gay marriage is a constitutional right.

In a move widely anticipated move, the U.S. solicitor general, in a brief submitted to the Supreme Court on Friday, argued that denying marriage equality is against federal law, thus marking the final stage of Obama’s full turnaround on the issue.

Reuters revealed that a leading anti-gay marriage group is in major financial straits and is struggling to pay the costs of arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court to defend California’s Prop. 8.

The Supreme Court announced Monday that it would decide whether or not to hear cases that challenge California’s Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

In the most public way possible, an op-ed in the New York Times, David Blankenhorn, who has led the national fight against same-sex marriage, did a 180-degree turn, to the vocal regret of his allies on the Right.

Retired Chief U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of California Vaughn Walker talked about the fate of Proposition 8, his sexual orientation and even Brad Pitt at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Thursday.