Tomorrow, Wednesday June 16, Closing Arguments will be heard in the Federal District Court bench trial Perry v Schwarzenegger, also known as the Prop 8 trial. Act On Principles will be live tweeting from the San Francisco courthouse beginning about 10 AM Pacific Time. The feed will be available on the Act On Principles home page (www.ActOnPrinciples.org), or by following @Actonprinciples on Twitter.

Evidence in the trial, which is also known as the Olson Boies trial after the famous attorneys attempting to overturn the California Constitutional amendment that prohibited same sex marriage, was heard by Judge Vernon Walker in January. At that time, Walker decided to postpone the closing arguments until attorneys on both sides could collate the evidence for him, and to give himself time to prepare questions for both sides to answer during their summations. That final stage in the trial was delayed due to an evidentiary argument in which the side defending Prop 8 wanted internal campaign documents from third parties. After Equality California and the American Civil Liberties Union relented and gave up the documents, the Judge scheduled closing arguments for tomorrow, and submitted dozens of questions which seem designed to test certain legal arguments, and to elicit any evidence supporting a rational basis for passage of Prop 8. The closing arguments begin at 10 AM and continue until complete. Judge Walker, who initially fast tracked the trial, is expected to rule on the case sometime this summer.

In a related matter, the new LGBT podcast, Same Sex Sunday included Act on Principles’ Prop 8 trial tweeter John Bare for its initial round of interviews to discuss his impressions of the trial. The podcast is available on iTunes and at their website, http://samesexsunday.podbean.com/mf/play/3ye543/SameSexSundayEpisode2.mp3 .