Director Doug Liman says his self-funded Brett Kavanaugh documentary Justice, which premiered at Sundance Friday night, might be far from finished as new tips started pouring within a half hour of the highly-secretive project being announced on Thursday.
“I thought the film was done… I thought I was off the hook. I’m in Sundance, I thought, I can sell the movie,” Liman said ruefully at a Q&a following the world premiere of his first documentary, which re-examines sexual assault accusations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh raised during his confirmation hearings in 2018. The film follows up tips the FBI apparently ignored in an investigation launched after Dr. Christine Blasey Ford accused Kavanaugh of assaulting her during a party in 1982 when they were both high school students in Maryland.
Justice gives extensive attention to allegations from another woman, Deborah Ramirez, who also came forward in the midst of the...
“I thought the film was done… I thought I was off the hook. I’m in Sundance, I thought, I can sell the movie,” Liman said ruefully at a Q&a following the world premiere of his first documentary, which re-examines sexual assault accusations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh raised during his confirmation hearings in 2018. The film follows up tips the FBI apparently ignored in an investigation launched after Dr. Christine Blasey Ford accused Kavanaugh of assaulting her during a party in 1982 when they were both high school students in Maryland.
Justice gives extensive attention to allegations from another woman, Deborah Ramirez, who also came forward in the midst of the...
- 1/21/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith and Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
San Francisco (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Sunday denied a last-ditch request from the sponsors of California's now-overturned gay marriage ban to halt the issuance of same-sex marriage licenses in the nation's most populous state. Kennedy turned away the appeal with no additional comment just as San Francisco's gay pride parade was getting underway in San Francisco, where dozens of couples have gotten married since Friday and where the clerk's office was expected to issue more licenses on Sunday. Same-sex marriage opponents asked Kennedy to step in on Saturday, a day after the
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- 6/30/2013
- by Associated Press
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The U.S. Supreme Court will end its term Wednesday with two historic rulings concerning same-sex marriage. In United States v. Windsor - a challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act (Doma), which restricts federal marriage benefits to opposite-sex couples - the court ruled in a 5-4 vote that the law is unconstitutional. "The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the State, by its marriage laws, sought to protect in personhood and dignity," Justice Anthony Kennedy writes in the majority opinion. In Hollingsworth v. Perry, which was...
- 6/26/2013
- PEOPLE.com
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman, calling it unconstitutional.Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, and was joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. Chief Justice John Roberts, Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito dissented.The decision extends federal benefits to legally married gay couples.The Court also dismissed Prop 8, meaning gays and lesbians can legally marry in California. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion. The decisions came Wednesday, the last day before it adjourns for the summer session. Celebrities, gay and straight, took to Twitter to support the Scotus Doma and Prop 8 decisions. Read their reactions below:Kristen Bell @IMKristenBell.@daxshepard1 will you marry me? Xo #marriageequality #loveislove”(the actress had previously said she would not wed until there was...
- 6/26/2013
- by tooFab Staff
- TooFab
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court decided that they could not rule on California’s Proposition 8, the 2008 referendum which made gay marriage in the Golden State illegal but has been blocked from being enforced after being ruled unconstitutional by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. By a 5-4 decision, with Justice Anthony Kennedy dissenting and Chief Justice John Roberts joining the majority, the decision means that gay marriage is again legal in California.
- 6/26/2013
- by Noah Rothman
- Mediaite - TV
In a nation built on the founding principle that all men are created equal and endowed with an unalienable right to pursue happiness, and nearly 150 years after the United States decided that no person should be denied equal protection under the law, the United States Supreme Court on Wednesday declared it unconstitutional to restrict federal marriage benefits for same-sex couples. Justice Anthony Kennedy delivered the majority opinion in a 5-4 ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act. According to the Supreme Court's holding, "Doma singles out a class of persons deemed by a State entitled to recognition
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- 6/26/2013
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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