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The day in pictures #2: Courtroom participants, observers meet the press

Courtroom participants and observers spilled out into a waiting crowd of reporters and cameras on Tuesday to share their experience as witnesses to to the historic Supreme Court hearing challenging Proposition 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage.
By Staff Reports · Updated on January 27, 2018
The day in pictures #2: Courtroom participants, observers meet the press

Courtroom participants and observers spilled out into a waiting crowd of reporters and cameras on Tuesday to share their experience as witnesses to to the historic Supreme Court hearing challenging Proposition 8, California’s ban on same-sex marriage.

Crowd photos from before and after the hearing are here.

Attorneys David Boies and Ted Olson speak to reporters.
Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP
Plaintiffs Paul Katami, left, and his partner Jeff Zarillo.
Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP
Plaintiffs Kris Perry, left, and her partner Sandy Stier, right, both from Berkeley, Cailf.
Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP
HRC President Chad Griffin speaks with reporters.
Photo: Brody Levesque, LGBTQ Nation
Cleve Jones, LGBT activist and Advisory Board Member of the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) and Dustin Lance Black, Director and AFER Board Member.
Photo: Brody Levesque, LGBTQ Nation
Marriage equality supporters Bishop Gene Robinson and Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo.
Photo: Brody Levesque, LGBTQ Nation
Actor, Director and AFER Board Member Rob Reiner.
Photo: Brody Levesque, LGBTQ Nation
Freedom to Marry President Evan Wolfson
Photo: Brody Levesque, LGBTQ Nation
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