On Monday, July 1, legal experts gathered at the Catholic Information Center for a panel discussion to react to the Supreme Court’s much anticipated decisions on DOMA and Proposition 8. The event was broadcast live on C-SPAN and can be viewed here.
Marriage & the Law panelists included:
Edward Whelan, President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, former Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice, and former General Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary.
Carrie Severino, Chief Counsel and Policy Director to the Judicial Crisis Network, former Olin/Searle Fellow and a Dean’s Visiting Scholar at Georgetown Law Center, and previously a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Hadley P. Arkes, American political scientist and the Edward N. Ney Professor of Jurisprudence and American Institutions at Amherst College.