there are, then the courts cannot say that acting upon those distinguishing characteristics is invidiously discriminatory. so that's the issue. >> that's a terrific response. let me ask a question that's meant entirely to be neutral. is it the preference of the proponents -- let's assume for the moment that we conclude you have standing and you're here to argue -- defend the proposition. i accept that position. do you want us to get to the merits of the issue here? in other words, do you want us to sidestep baker? >> no, not at all. your honor, i believe that baker is binding on this court. my opening legal point would have been that, in fact, this is not the first court to take up and deal with the very 14th amendment issues that the plaintiffs bring here today. in fact, there have been eight appellates court, state and federal, who have addressed these issues insofar as they relate to proposition 8. all eight of those courts have upheld the traditional marriage laws and have rejected the 14th amendment claims. one of those cases, your honor, is baker against nelson, a supreme court case

if your interested in funny and nice invidious, go to youtube.but you will see a lot of videos in which the bicycle and the car cooperate. these are some pictures and examples of how the public authorities can invest in cycling. this is a parking space for a cyclist. tend thousand bicycles can be stored there. -- 10,000 bicycles can be stored there. you can build a shelter for about 30,000 bicycles. now, what can employees do? many employees are working on the bicycle programs. this picture is a picture of a bicycle shelter at the company where my wife works. it is quite luxurious. that it is a lawyer's firm, 500 lawyers work there, and most of them, by bicycle. -- and most of them come by bicycle. many companies give their employees their bicycle with their name on that. it is a form of advertisement. many companies, the company where i work for, the chamber of commerce, they have bicycle and scooter sharing for the people to come by public transport. they can take a bicycle or a scooter to go to their place. many companies are stimulating their

electorate demand that kind of democratization they had some hope of it being achieved under an invidious presidency. in his rhetoric if not in his actions gave some hope that democratization was on its way but after they made their switch put and said he's coming back to the presidency there was no there was no certainty among among the liberal middle class segment of the electorate this was happening so yes britain has to offer this how genuine it is it's a big question you know you have to you have to wait for actions to back it up and the debate is this is this working well it's not democracy it's i think maybe the most important of all yeah exactly yeah but i would remind you that democracy in russia it's a long term project it's not the immediate reaction to the protests we are facing in december. following months russia is very young by judging by historical standards it's just twenty years of practice all this very important you saying so so you think that this is put his article what he writes isn't part of his dialogue with the protestors but rather his manifesto and part of thi

the c code the shore and the air and it's also a key to preserving the strategic dhaka to of our invidious capability. the airlift capable of the short takeoff and vertical landing of a great exceed was when the fighter pilot crashed in libya and they were able to within about 90 minutes takeoff from the large ships, rescue the pilot and have him back on board. so obviously there was a critical need. and i also understand that the regional joint strike fighter procurement originally was currently planned at 2,430 aircraft and then in light of the new defense strategy and budget, the joint strike fighter program perhaps is looking at being restructured which may include fewer aircraft spread out over a longer time frame, and according to the deputy secretary defense, the department will slow its approach to the full rate production of aircraft. do we have a project timeline to complete the necessary testing and implementation of the developmental changes in order to start buying the aircraft in the half year quantities? and how has the department conveyed this to the defense industrial base

reason, and it's done for a reason that could only be directed at the class in a manner that is invidious but in a biased manner and we can sometimes derived that view by the action a self then you cannot do it, and here you have to take into account all of the circumstances. you have all the aspects of marriage other than the title when what is the reason for wanting to take that title away from a group of people who have enjoyed it that you give to the constitutional. with our submission to you is is that people of california needed no reason beyond mid the fact that they disagree that the constitution of ordained that result that there constitution outlawed and invalidated the traditional -- >> is that true of the moral law? >> a bigger part in? >> why isn't that true? the people of colorado decided they wanted to do this and that's what they wanted and what the people of california did but that there is a limit on that and it doesn't have to be in the federal constitution except there has to be a rational basis for it and it can be related to bias. >> yes, your honor, that is true, so

so it has a lot of the invidious aspects of a tax. but it doesn't have the one thing that chief justice marshall said is critical for a tax. which is the kind of up front accountability that allows the structural process of government to work. and so let me just finish by saying, akil said we could start a serious conversation if we had an answer for why this is different from just taxing people and then taking things from some people and giving them to others. and i think -- i think the short answer is this is completely different from that. from one way that's critically important and that's accountability. there's a lot of accountability in taxing people. there's a lot of accountability in being very clear about who's getting the benefits of those taxes. what happened here is that the group of insurance companies who otherwise would have protested long and hard against the new impositions that are implicit in the health insurance reforms that neal described, they were basically quieted because an effective tax subsidy was devised w

the c code the shore and the air and it's also a key to preserving the strategic dhaka to of our invidious capability. the airlift capable of the short takeoff and vertical landing of a great exceed was when the fighter pilot crashed in libya and they were able to within about 90 minutes takeoff from the large ships, rescue the pilot and have him back on board. so obviously there was a critical need. and i also understand that the regional joint strike fighter procurement originally was currently planned at 2,430 aircraft and then in light of the new defense strategy and budget, the joint strike fighter program perhaps is looking at being restructured which may include fewer aircraft spread out over a longer time frame, and according to the deputy secretary defense, the department will slow its approach to the full rate production of aircraft. do we have a project timeline to complete the necessary testing and implementation of the developmental changes in order to start buying the aircraft in the half year quantities? and how has the department conveyed this to the defense industrial base