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INFORMATION AS SOON IT
COMES IN.
WE'VE BEEN WATCHING PEOPLE
LINE UP OUTSIDE THE SUPREME
COURT OVER
THE PAST FEW DAYS.
TONIGHT, DAN KERMAN HAS A
PREVIEW OF THE UPCOMING
PROPOSITION 8.
>> WHEN THEY GATHER ON
TUESDAY THE WILL HAVE 30
MINUTES TO ARGUE FOR
PROPOSITION 8. THEY'RE
HOPING FOR SEATS - SO THEY
CAN HEAR ARGUMENTS ON PROP 8
TUESDAY.
AND ON WEDNESDAY - THE
ARGUMENTS OVER THE DEFENSE
OF MARRIAGE ACT.
>> THE GENERAL IS NOW
INVOLVED MAKING A DECISION
ON THE WHITE HOUSE.
>> THE PROFESSOR ROYAL
LITTLE THINGS THAT THIS IS
SIGNIFICANT.
>> THIS IS A LEVEL OF
SERIOUSNESS THIS IS NOT JUST
A STATE CASE IT IS RAISED TO
THE LEVEL OF NATIONAL
SIGNIFICANCE.
>> REPORTER: THE JUSTICES
WILL NOT RULE UNTIL THE
MONTH OF JUNE BUT THEY WILL
NOT PRESENT THIS AS THIS
COULD LIKELY LEAD TO THE
LEGALIZATION OF PROPOSITION
8 ONLY IN THE STATE OF
CALIFORNIA OR MAKE THIS
JUST IN CALIFORNIA. OR THEY
COULD RULE THAT PROPOSITION
8 WOULD BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
OR, THEY COULD MAKE IT
PROPOSITION 8 WOULD BE
NATIONAL OR IT COULD BE
UPHELD AS A BAND OF SAME-SEX
MARRIAGE.
>> I WOULD SAY THAT THEY
WOULD SAY THAT PROPOSITION 8
IS NOT VALID. ANTHONY
KENNEDY WILL BE THE DECIDING
VOTE. LITTLE HAS BEEN ARGUED
FOR SOME TIME. CHIEF
JUSTICE, JOHN ROBERTS COULD
BE THE DECIDING VOTER.
>> HE HAS ADOPTED CHILDREN
ANY CERTAINLY UNDERSTANDS
THE WE DO NOT HAVE
BIOLOGICAL OPERATION TO HAVE
A STABLE FAMILY OR A HALT
THE FAMILY FOR CHILDREN.
>> REPORTER: ALSO, THAT HE
COULD ALSO VOTE IN FAVOR OF
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. IN SAN
FRANCISCO, DAN KERMAN, KRON
4 NEWS.
>> CATHERINE: THEY'RE HOPING
FOR SEATS LINING UP OUTSIDE.
AND ON WEDNESDAY, THE
DEFENSIVE MARRIAGE ACT BUT
NOTICE FREEZING TEMPERATURES
HAVE NOT DISCOURAGED THESE
PEOPLE.
THEY'VE BEEN CAMPED OUT FOR
DAYS.AND THEY'RE NOT ABOUT
TO BUDGE.
THERE AREN'T THAT MANY SEATS
AVAILABLE.
ONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO WILL
ALMOST DEFINITELY GET A
SEAT.
THE SAN FRANCISCO COUSIN OF
CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS.
JEAN PODRASKY IS A LESBIAN -
AND PLANS TO ATTEND THE
HEARINGS WITH HER PARTNER.
SHE ACTIVELY CAMPAIGNED
AGAINST PROP 8 AS IT MADE
ITS WAY THROUGH THE COURTS
IN CALIFORNIA.
SHE SAYS SHE'S CONFIDENT
THAT ROBERTS WILL RULE IN
FAVOR OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.
KARL ROVE - THE REPUBLICAN
STRATEGIST - HAS SOME
THOUGHTS ON THE ISSUE.
HE SAYS HE 'CAN' IMAGINE A
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE IN THE
NEXT PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
-- SUPPORTING
SAME SEX MARRIAGE.
ROVE IS THE FORMER ADVISER
TO PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSY.
HE IS APPARENTLY
ACKNOWLEDGING THAT
OPPOSITION TO SAME SEX
MARRIAGE IS EBBING -- EVEN
IN SOME CONSERVATIVE
CIRCLES.
>> PAM: AND ALTHOUGH SUPPORT
IS GROWING, THERE IS STILL
STRONG OPPOSITION.
IN A RECENT NATIONAL C-N-N
POLL, 53- PERCENT OF THOSE
SURVEYED SAID, THEY SUPPORT
GAY MARRIAGE.
.WHILE 44- PERCENT ARE
AGAINST IT.
3 - PERCENT HAD NO OPINION.
SUPPORT FOR SAME-SEX
MARRIAGES TOPPED 50-
PERCENT IN THE SPRING OF
2011, AND THE NUMBER HAS
REMAINED RELATIVELY
CONSISTENTLY EVER SINCE.
STAY WITH KRON-4 AS WE
FOLLOW THE U.S SUPREME
COURT AS IT TAKES ON SAME-
SEX MARRIAGE.