Chief justice's lesbian cousin will attend landmark gay-marriage argument
Source: NBC news
A cousin of Chief Justice John Roberts who wants to marry her lesbian partner in California says she will attend this weeks landmark Supreme Court argument on gay marriage.
Jean Podrasky will sit in a section of the courtroom reserved for relatives and guests of the chief justice. Her partner of four years, Grace Fasano, will attend with her, she told the Los Angeles Times.
Podrasky said that she has no knowledge of the chief justices thinking but expects the court to overturn Proposition 8, a ban on gay marriage that was approved by California voters in 2008.
He is a smart man, she told the newspaper. He is a good man. I believe he sees where the tide is going. I do trust him. I absolutely trust that he will go in a good direction.
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