Forcing The Spring: Inside The Fight For Marriage Equality - Plot & Excerpts
With no office in San Francisco, the corporate residential apartments they occupied had become cluttered live-work spaces, the floors a tangle of wires leading to rented printers, and available surfaces stacked high with binders and documents. Cooper, like Olson, had for the most part delegated the actual job of questioning witnesses to his deputies. That freed him up to think strategically about the points his team should—and should not—be making. “How,” he would ask himself as he reviewed the lines of questioning in each cross-examination plan, “will this fall on the ear of the one person I care about, Justice Kennedy?” But some battles are important enough to the outcome of a war that the general needs to climb into the trenches. And that is why Cooper assigned himself the job of cross-examining the expert witness whom David Boies called to the stand after Sanders finished on Tuesday. Lee Badgett was an economist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the author of When Gay People Get Married and another book called Money, Myths, and Change: The Economic Lives of Lesbians and Gay Men.
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