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Citizens United movie-advertisers must disclose funders in Colorado

  This week brought a win for supporters of Colorado's campaign finance disclosure laws when the United States 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday...

Littwin: The gay-marriage future is determined

The most amazing thing about the same-sex marriage debate is how quickly it has evolved. There's no cultural norm that has ever changed with such speed.

Polis, One Colorado celebrate ruling against Prop 8 gay marriage ban

Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has ruled that California's controversial voter-approved Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in 2008, is unconstitutional. The 136-page ruling in Perry v. Schwarzenegger sends ripples across the nation, where gay marriage has been contested at the ballot box repeatedly, advancing the cause of gay rights on the ground in California but also all but guaranteeing that a higher court will now be asked to take up the issue. A decision by the Supreme Court on the matter would effectively end any bans on gay marriage in all 50 states.

Prop 8 Trial tid bits: Judge Walker’s non political gayness and...

The Daily Caller posts a good round up on the California gay marriage Prop 8 trial, concluded last week and awaiting a verdict from...

Prop 8 anti-gay marriage attorney: ‘You don’t have to have evidence’

Reports from the courtroom of Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco, where closing arguments on California's gay marriage ban took place...

Conservative counselor Olson opens argument for gay marriage

High-powered conservative lawyer Ted Olson, the man who argued the case for the George W. Bush campaign in Bush v. Gore, today pleaded a...