| Highlight from Media Mayhem with Allison Hope Weiner Episode 1 In this segment of the show, Ted Boutrous and Allison talk about his legal efforts to help overturn Proposition 8, the anti-gay marriage initiative. Ted and his legal partner and mentor, Ted Olson, agreed to represent a coalition of people seeking to overturn the proposition. Boutrous and Olson concluded that the best way to attack the Proposition was to file a federal lawsuit attacking the measure as unconstitional. Boutrous talks about how Olson, a well known conservative, was quick to join the legal team because he believes that Proposition 8 denies gay Americans equal rights. Boutrous explains how the supporters of Proposition 8 argued against broadcasting the trial and succeeded in preventing the public from seeing some very moving and persuasive testimony against the proposition. The trial was actually video taped and recently, Boutrous argued that the video tape should be released to the public. Boutrous believes that if the public saw the video and the moving testimony, they'd feel differently about the proposition. TO SEE THE ENTIRE INTERVIEW CHECK OUT THELIP.TV |
