Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality (63 page)

“Ted wasn’t going to shy away”
:
Author interview with Ted Boutrous, March 21, 2013.

In Olson’s view
:
Author interview with Ted Olson, December 8, 2011.

Olson had framed his case
:
Author interview with Robbie Kaplan, February 27, 2013.

The best piece of advice
:
Author interview with Robbie Kaplan, April 4, 2013.

Cooper, who had indeed been less than pleased
:
Author interview with Chuck Cooper, June 1, 2013.

while Olson had sent Boutrous
:
Author interview with Ted Boutrous, March 21, 2013.

What had once seemed politically toxic
:
Maggie Haberman, “Clinton Stays in the Game with Gay Marriage Move,” Politico.com, March 18, 2013.

CHAPTER 37: KENNEDY V. KENNEDY

He checked his phone
:
Facebook Data Science.

“Being here right now”
:
Author interview with Enrique Monagas, March 19, 2013.

“You’ve already won”
:
Author interviews with Paul Cappuccio, June and November 2013.

“Look at the difference”
:
Author interview with Paul Smith, May 17, 2013.

“Both times,” Rob joked
:
Author interview with Chad Griffin, March 2013.

“That is an enormous concession”
:
Author interview with David Boies, May 23, 2013.

Cite the evidence from trial
:
Author interviews with Terry Stewart, March 26, 2013, and December 3, 2013.

Ted Boutrous, for his part
:
Author interview with Ted Boutrous, December 13, 2013.

“Bring me the head”
:
Author interview with Ted Boutrous, February 21, 2013.

But as a matter of form and comity
:
Adam Liptak, “Who Wanted to Take the Case on Gay Marriage? Ask Scalia,”
New York Times,
March 29, 2013.

“We were both surprised”
:
Author interview with David Boies, May 23, 2013.

Boies would later say
:
Ibid.

“I felt like he respected our struggle”
:
Author interview with Kris Perry, March 30, 2013.

CHAPTER 38: “SKIM MILK MARRIAGES”

Weeks earlier, she had attended
:
Author interview with Robbie Kaplan, February 20, 2013.

Waking up, she said she had just one thought
:
Author interview with Robbie Kaplan, April 4, 2013.

Walking out the Court’s bronze front door
:
Author interview with Robbie Kaplan, April 14, 2013.

CHAPTER 39: “DIGNITY”

Because the Supreme Court tends
:
Robert Barnes, “Conservatives Likely to Write Most Remaining Decisions in Supreme Court’s Term,”
Washington Post,
June 16, 2013.

Edie’s doctors, worried that the stress
:
Author interview with Robbie Kaplan, July 9, 2013.

The day before, Olson had told the plaintiffs
:
Author interview with Chad Griffin, undated.

In New York, Edie and her legal team
:
Author interview with Robbie Kaplan, July 9, 2013.

“That’s not good, that’s not good”
:
Author interview with Matt McGill, June 26, 2013.

It was going to be okay
:
Author interview with David Boies, June 26, 2013.

“I want to go to Stonewall right now!”
:
Ariel Levy, “How Edith Windsor Learned She Won,”
New Yorker,
June 26, 2013.

Kris, sitting next to Chad
:
Author interviews with Kris Perry and Chad Griffin, June 26, 2013.

But Roberts turned the passage “on its head”
:
Author interview with Chuck Cooper, undated.

In recent weeks, Chad, Adam, and Ted
:
Author interviews with Chad Griffin, Adam Umhoefer, and Ted Boutrous.

It was possible, of course
:
Author interviews with David Boies, Theane Kapur, and Josh Lipshutz, June 26, 2013.

In Washington, Cooper analyzed
:
Author interview with Chuck Cooper, July 18, 2013.

Justice Ginsburg would later reject
:
Adam Liptak, “Court Is ‘One of Most Activist,’ Ginsburg Says, Vowing to Stay,”
New York Times,
August 24, 2013.

On the ground in San Francisco
:
Author interview with Vaughn Walker, June 29, 2013.

CHAPTER 40: JUNE IS FOR WEDDINGS

“We’ll know more at 3 p.m.”
:
Author interviews with Josh Lipshutz, June 28, 2013, and Chris Dusseault, July 3, 2013.

“The pace they were talking”
:
Author interview with Adam Umhoefer, June 28, 2013.

Sandy was at work
:
Author interviews with Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, June 28, 2013.

“Cancel your shrink appointment”
:
Author interviews with Chad Griffin and Dustin Lance Black, June 28, 2013.

Cohen had called Adam
:
Author interviews with Adam Umhoefer and Bruce Cohen, June 28, 2013.

A leak could give the proponents
:
Author interview with Vaughn Walker, June 29, 2010.

“At a personal, human level”
:
Author interview with Chuck Cooper, July 18, 2013.

Over the years, Cooper had
:
This entire section is based on author interviews with Chuck Cooper on December 10, 2013, and January 3, 2014; Debbie Cooper on December 26, 2013; and Ashley Lininger on December 26, 2013 and January 20, 2014.

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2
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3
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4
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: courtesy of Vaughn R. Walker

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7
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8
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9
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10
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13
,
14
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17
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22
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ABC,
297
,
376

ABC News,
301

abortion law,
50
,
272
,
374

Diamond v. Charles
and,
232
–33

Ginsberg on
Roe v. Wade,
21
,
325

Kennedy’s rulings on,
343

Abrams, J.J.,
32

Abrams, Katie,
32

Academy Awards,
23
–24,
27

ACT UP,
27

adolescence,
see
teenagers

adoption,
93
,
133
,
206
–7,
208
,
215
,
365

by gays, banning of,
7
,
31
,
161
,
240
,
364

adultery,
113

advertising,
38
,
68
,
99
,
102
–3,
107
,
117
–18,
147
,
267
,
327
,
362
,
373

in video compilation,
185
–89

Advocate,
151
,
212

AFER,
see
American Foundation for Equal Rights

affirmative action programs,
8
,
14

Afghanistan,
287

African Americans, 2,
24
,
33
,
49
,
77
,
117
,
161
,
180
,
188
,
198

in California,
36

election of 2008 and,
3
,
4
,
58

housing discrimination and,
160

on juries,
342
–43

political power and,
164
–65,
195

religious support for,
164

same-sex marriage and,
186
,
250
,
294
,
300
–301,
326
–27,
331

segregation and,
3
,
12
–13,
77
,
109
,
126
,
258
,
279
,
336

on Supreme Court,
214
,
335
,
352

see also
interracial marriage; slavery, slaves

AIDS,
26
–27,
32
,
45
,
124
,
194
,
302

AIDS quilt,
26
,
380

Air Force One,
304

Alabama Supreme Court,
357

Alair, Olivia,
363

Alaska,
20
,
240

alcoholism,
76
,
77
,
78
,
306

Alito, Samuel,
335
,
389
,
396
,
411
,
419

Alliance Defense Fund,
85
,
121
,
140
,
146
,
156
,
159

Amazon.com,
327

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,
134

American Academy of Pediatrics,
94
,
134
,
376

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU),
29
,
30
,
33
,
51
,
136
,
236
,
255

as party to Prop
8
case,
56
–57

American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER),
57
,
65
,
82
,
84
,
119
,
129
,
130
,
147
–48,
201
,
208
,
211
,
213
,
215
,
218
–20,
224
,
237
,
261
,
273
,
281
,
284
,
290
,
306
–7,
339
,
345
,
378
,
384
,
410
,
423
,
425

Chad’s last day at,
304
,
307

funding of,
31
–33,
263
–66,
301
,
302

Mehlman and,
262
–66,
289

Umhoefer’s takeover of,
282
,
302

war room of,
361
–62

American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC),
303

American Psychiatric Association,
134
,
157

American Psychoanalytic Association,
134

American Psychological Association,
134
,
178

American Society of Pediatrics,
390

Americans with Disabilities Act,
68

amicus curiae briefs,
349
–52,
358
,
361

animus,
340
,
353

Perry
trial and,
67
–68,
89
,
101
–2,
122
,
144
,
147
,
184
,
187
,
188
–89,
232
,
316

Windsor
case and,
403
,
404
,
418

appeals courts,
55

see also
Court of Appeals, U.S.; Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Arab Spring,
331

Archives of Sexual Behavior,
318

Arizona,
20
,
246
,
316

Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona,
233
,
244
,
246
,
414
–15,
420

Arkansas,
3
–4,
5
,
24
,
25
,
237
,
269
,
372

Arnold & Porter,
368

Ashcroft, John,
59

Asians,
110
,
175
–76

in California,
36
,
139
,
140
,
141
,
170

Associated Press,
63
,
106
,
332
,
365

Atlantic,
264

August, John,
32

Axelrod, David,
288
,
293
,
296

Ayanbadejo, Brendon,
324

Bachmann, Michele,
256
–57

Bacon, Kevin,
279
,
280

Badgett, Lee,
149
–54

Baker v. Nelson,
59

Baldwin, Tammy,
321
–22,
331

ballot initiatives,
160
–61,
194
,
195
,
198
–99,
213
–14,
233
,
246
,
261
,
274
,
352

Baptists,
164
,
297
,
324
,
326
–27,
379

Baume, Matt,
378

Baxter, Rosanne,
140

Benedict XVI, Pope,
175

benefits,
150
,
194
,
363

federal,
10
,
19
,
166
,
248
,
314
,
345
,
350
,
351
,
356
,
370
–71

Berean Baptist Church,
297

Beyoncé,
383

Bezos, Jeff,
327

Bible,
109
,
164
,
352
,
364

Biden, Joe,
284
–88,
294
–95,
331
,
358

Bill of Rights, U.S.,
380

Bing, Steve,
33

bisexuals,
9
,
12
,
91
,
107
,
178

Black, Dustin Lance,
23
–26,
27
–29,
82
,
85
,
226
,
273
,
286
,
294
,
299
,
380
,
384
–85,
388

background of,
25

Chad’s first meeting with,
23
–24,
27

8
and,
261
–62,
281

gay hostility to,
27
–28,
29

speeches of,
23
–24,
27
–29

and wedding of Kris and Sandy,
424
,
426
,
427
,
428

Black, Marcus,
273

Blackmun, Harry,
343

Blackstone, William,
30

Blankenhorn, David,
129
–30,
202
–10,
223
,
225
,
313
,
317
,
318
,
319
–20,
327
,
328
,
329

8
and,
261
,
279

switching of sides by,
313
,
317
–20,
327
,
328

Blatt, Lisa,
368
–71

Bloomberg, Michael,
267
,
268

Bloomberg TV,
361

B.o.B.,
410
–11

Boehner, John,
315
,
347

Boies, David,
52
–54,
55
,
59
,
69
,
73
–75,
81
–82,
84
,
94
–99,
106
–7,
112
,
139
,
140
–41,
148
,
190
,
212
,
322
,
371
,
405
,
410

appeals court case and,
231
,
234
,
235
,
236
,
241
,
245
–46,
273

depositions taken by,
94
–95,
163
,
164

8
and,
261
,
262
,
278

election of 2000 and,
39
,
42
,
70

expert witnesses and,
71
,
150
,
151
,
152
,
153
–54,
163
,
165
,
169
–74,
175
–76,
177
,
178
,
192
–99,
202
–9,
225

Hollingsworth
decision and,
411
,
415
,
417
,
419
,
421
,
422

Hollingsworth
oral arguments and,
386
,
389
,
392
–93,
394
,
396
,
397
–98

Hollingsworth
strategy and,
349
,
351
,
353
–55,
373
–74,
376

Obama and,
120

Olson’s joint projects with,
361

payment of,
42
,
219
,
302

Perry
trial as viewed by,
54
,
55
,
73
–74

press conference of,
45
–46

reassessments made by,
205

redirect and,
103
,
152

Sanders’s testimony and,
144
,
146

selected as Olson’s co-counsel,
39
,
41
–42

style of,
70
,
195

and Supreme Court’s granting cert,
341
,
346
–47

Walker’s decision and,
221
,
225
,
227

at White House,
353
–55

Windsor
decision and,
412
,
417
,
419

Boies, Mary,
70
,
94
,
194
,
346
,
353
,
382
,
410

Bonauto, Mary,
280
,
361

Bond, Julian,
327

Bork, Robert,
49

Bossie, David,
50
–51,
168

Boston, Mass.,
314
,
337

Boudin, Michael,
314
–15

Boutrous, Ted,
30
–31,
33
,
66
–67,
86
,
127
,
161
,
162
,
179
,
191
,
200
,
206
,
209
,
211
,
218
,
344
,
405
,
433

appeals court case and,
234
,
241
,
273
,
274
,
275
,
276

Cott’s direct examination and,
110
–20

after
Hollingsworth
decision,
416

Hollingsworth
oral arguments and,
360
,
362
,
367
,
368
,
373
,
374
,
386
,
388
,
390
–91

Segura and,
164

and Supreme Court’s granting cert,
347
,
348

Walker’s decision and,
221
–22,
224
,
225

Bowers v. Hardwick,
30
–31,
34
,
41
,
192
,
387
,
396

boycotts,
165
–66

Boy Scouts,
302
,
409

Bradshaw, Sally,
377