On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
The public will have access to a court room trial challenging the constitutionality of proposition 8. The ban an same sex marriage in California.
Chief Judge Vaughn Walker and the U.S court of appeals for the 9th circuit ruled on Wednesday against airing the proceedings on live television but allowed it to be uploaded to YouTube a few hours later.
Two gay couples filed a lawsuit last May challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8. Their lawyers, former Bush administration Solicitor General Theodore Olson and David Boies, who represented former Vice President Al Gore in the U.S. Supreme Court case that decided the 2000 presidential race, argue that the ban violates the 14th Amendment.
The non jury trial is to being on the 11th in San Francisco. The rare decision to allow recording of the proceeding was allowed after intense media pressure.
Opponents of the ban say it improperly altered the state's Constitution to restrict a fundamental right guaranteed in the state charter.
Ban supporters say Californians long have had the right to change their state Constitution through ballot initiatives.
Chief Judge Vaughn Walker and the U.S court of appeals for the 9th circuit ruled on Wednesday against airing the proceedings on live television but allowed it to be uploaded to YouTube a few hours later.
Two gay couples filed a lawsuit last May challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8. Their lawyers, former Bush administration Solicitor General Theodore Olson and David Boies, who represented former Vice President Al Gore in the U.S. Supreme Court case that decided the 2000 presidential race, argue that the ban violates the 14th Amendment.
The non jury trial is to being on the 11th in San Francisco. The rare decision to allow recording of the proceeding was allowed after intense media pressure.
Opponents of the ban say it improperly altered the state's Constitution to restrict a fundamental right guaranteed in the state charter.
Ban supporters say Californians long have had the right to change their state Constitution through ballot initiatives.
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