Page 38 - State Interest News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Discrimination. >> didn't you know all along, that you were asking the court to do a really heavy lift, you know, asking the court to say -- in all 50 states, same-sex marriage should be legal. didn't you know that? >> of course, and that's the court stepped up to it. the court could have ducked. the doma case on standing, it didn't. what the court did was they said the government has standing because it's going to affect the government and in the california case, what they said was we can't breach it. because the proponents don't have dme standing. but standing is more than just a technical d...

A former federal prosecutor who has worked on extradition cases. mark, this is amazing. we have all these issues outstanding with russia right now. syria, and russian adoptions. now. this we think he is still in russia but we really don't know, do we? >> we don't know. i will tell you this the best made extradition plans can go awry. i have extradited hundreds of people from colombia. this process can be laden with paperwork. it can be jammed up for years. in a case like, this you would think that they would streamline it. >> laura: so he this would get it right. >> it's an urgent case and the...

Affirmative action. on the other hand, he seems to cite some of the arguments we've heard from conservatives, both on the supreme court and definitely in the conservative bar, that say any racial classification really is suspect and should probably go away as the country evolves. do you think he's edging closer to that criticism and could that come up in the voting rights cases as well? >> oh, well, the voting rights cases, yes, could be a complete disaster from the civil rights point of view. to take a step back on affirmative action, the court has labored on this case for eight months and br...

Otherwise there would be no reason to charge him. so they must have made a determination they will charge him federally and satisfy the federal interests. >> neil: what happens then if the state of massachusetts filed separate murder or what other charges. does that complicate the federal case or what? >> not at all. the case will likely proceed to the federal district court. the federal sister first. the state will obviously have their own independent charges. based on the results of the federal case, they may end up dismissing the state charges at the end of the day. if the state interests a...

Are over the age of 55. would that be constitutional? >> no, your honor. it would not be constitutional. >> because that's the same state interest, i would think, you know. if you are over the age of 55, you don't help us serve the government's interest in regulating procreation through marriage. so why is that different? >> your honor, even with respect to couples over the age of 55, it is very rare that both couples -- both parties to the couple are infertile. >> no, really, because, if a couple -- i can just assure you, if both the woman and the man are over the age of 55, there are not a l...