{"id":228548,"date":"2010-01-25T21:30:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T02:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=63560"},"modified":"2010-01-25T21:30:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T02:30:21","slug":"prop-8-perry-v-schwarzenegger-%e2%80%93-day-ten-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/228548","title":{"rendered":"Prop 8: Perry v. Schwarzenegger \u2013 Day Ten (Part 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-61499\" title=\"prop.large\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/01\/prop.large_.jpeg\" alt=\"prop.large\" width=\"200\" height=\"161\" \/>[<em>Ed. Note: FDL has complete team coverage of Perry v. Schwarzenegger&#8211;including more legal analysis, court documents,  videos, and liveblogging direct from the federal court in San Francisco. You can find it all on <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/prop8trial\/\" ><em>our dedicated Prop 8 page<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>Continuing David Boies\u2019 cross examination of Defendant-Intervenors\u2019 Expert Witness Dr Kenneth Miller at ten minutes before the hour.<\/p>\n<p>We are on break now.<\/p>\n<p>Waiting now for the Judge to take the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Betting here is that we will go until five; mixed decision on whether we will finish with Miller today.<\/p>\n<p>Boies: PX1869, Tab 35: Santa Clara Law Review, you wrote this?<br \/>\nM: Yes<br \/>\nB: Offered<br \/>\nWalker: Very well, hearing no objection<br \/>\nB: Second full graf: &#8220;Moreover by liminting the opportunieis for opponents to participate the intitiative process makes it more difficult for opponents to participate in the legislative process.&#8221;<br \/>\nYou wrote that?<br \/>\nM: Yes<br \/>\nB: And do youbelieve that today?<br \/>\nM: Yes<br \/>\nB (reads) &#8220;The initiative process fosters confrontation rather than consensus building.&#8221; Dod you wrtite that?<br \/>\nM: Yes<br \/>\nB: Do you believe it now?<br \/>\nM: Yes, but I might word it differently now.<br \/>\nB: Well do you believe it to be true now?<br \/>\nM: More or less, yes<\/p>\n<p>B: Page six (reads) &#8220;Thus in CA both inititative constitutional amendements and inisitiative statutes undermine representative goveermnet.&#8221; Did you write that?<br \/>\nM: Yes<br \/>\nB: What did you mean by that?<br \/>\nM: Not sure, but initiatives have the tendency to make it more difficult for the legislature to do its job. Lock in spending, or cuts, and they can\u2019t do their work within the voted-on framework.<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seminal.firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=63560&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_63560\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Ed. Note: FDL has complete team coverage of Perry v. Schwarzenegger&#8211;including more legal analysis, court documents, videos, and liveblogging direct from the federal court in San Francisco. You can find it all on our dedicated Prop 8 page.] Continuing David Boies\u2019 cross examination of Defendant-Intervenors\u2019 Expert Witness Dr Kenneth Miller at ten minutes before the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}