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Becker, John D.
Forcing the spring :
inside the fight for marriage equality /
Jo Becker.
New York :
The Penguin Press,
2014.
pages cm.
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Donated by Joe Murray for the John Hannah Jr. Reading Room.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Forcing the Spring begins on Election Night 2008, when a controversial California ballot initiative called Proposition 8--which removed the right of gay men and women to marry--passed alongside Barack Obama's stunning victory. Forcing the Spring details how a small but determined group of political and media insiders took the fight for marriage equality all the way to the Supreme Court. Gay activists and Hollywood liberals joined together to enlist attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies--the opposing counsels on the Supreme Court's infamous Bush v. Gore ruling--to bring a controversial legal case against Proposition 8 before the highest court in the land. Forcing the Spring is the extraordinary ringside account of this unprecedented effort to shift public opinion and reengineer the political certainties of an era"--
Provided by publisher.
20140429.
Perry, Kristin
Trials, litigation, etc.
Hollingsworth, Dennis,
1967-
Trials, litigation, etc.
California
Proposition 8 (2008.)
United States
Defense of Marriage Act.
Locus standi
United States
Cases.
Same-sex marriage
Law and legislation
United States
Cases.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gay Studies.
Hollingsworth v. Perry, 570 U.S. ???? (2013.)
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