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When our individual rights are taken away - when the majority decides that an unpopular group of individuals should be treated differently and they can’t succeed at the ballot box because they are unpopular - because they are a minority, because they are viewed differently by a number of people in the populous - they turn to the courts of the United States.
And we have a spectacular Constitution that values equality, that values fundamental rights and values an independent judiciary to protect and vindicate those rights.
”Attorney Ted Olson, one of two lawyers who led the fight against Prop 8 (California’s gay marriage ban), in a press conference after a federal judge ruled the law was unconstitutional.
As my brother, Harvard law student Danny Rosenthal, said: “It feels good to be a future lawyer today”
