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Activists & pundits of traditional marriage and marriage equality have found common ground on one thing: Attorney Charles Cooper was badly outgunned by marriage-equality’s All-Star line-up of David Boies and Ted Olson.

In the wake of what looks like a Supreme Court slam dunk, Fox News audience favorite Bill O’Reilly in his own inimitable way, joined the flood of senior politicians rushing to join the marriage-equality bandwagon.

Among those attending the historic hearings on California’s Proposition 8 will be U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.’s lesbian cousin.

A group calling for a massive demonstration outside the Supreme Court to support two landmark marriage-equality cases goes against the principle that the court shouldn’t be influenced by public opinion.

More than 200 businesses, including Microsoft, Apple and Amazon, and 100 Republicans have signed briefs that urge the Supreme Court to strike down DOMA and Prop. 8.

Seventy-five top ranking Republicans are to file a Supreme Court brief that supports the overturning of Proposition 8 and states that gay marriage is a constitutional right.

In a move widely anticipated move, the U.S. solicitor general, in a brief submitted to the Supreme Court on Friday, argued that denying marriage equality is against federal law, thus marking the final stage of Obama’s full turnaround on the issue.

Mexico’s Supreme Court, citing U.S. Supreme Court rulings on discrimination, overwhelmingly ruled on Monday that laws that prohibit same-sex couples from getting married are unconstitutional

The Supreme Court announced Monday that it would decide whether or not to hear cases that challenge California’s Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

Conservative magazine the National Review speculates that Iowa voters, motivated to recall a State Supreme Court judge who voted for gay marriage, could swing the state -- & the national -- presidential election for Mitt Romney.