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Supreme Court Hears Gay Marriage Argument Tuesday After Epic SCOTUS Camp Out

By Dawn Papple
Published on: 01:56 PST, Apr 28, 2015

For the last four days, people have been camping out near One First Street, outside the Supreme Court, hoping for a chance to witness the historic arguments Tuesday from the highly debated, high-profile SCOTUS case, Obergefell v. Hodges, which will impact marriage equality across the nation. Along First Street, lawn chairs, sleeping backs, blankets, and hunkered down hopeful witnesses packed the SCOTUS’ sidewalks. The line of campers extended around the block.

It wasn’t just ordinary citizens interested in hearing the oral arguments presented to the SCOTUS who were camped out in the line outside the nation’s highest court. According to Slate, companies like Line Standing or Washington Express allowed people to pay a proxy to camp out in front of the Supreme Court for them for a mere six grand.

Monday night, at a Freedom to Marry reception, White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett, spoke of the marriage case, according to BuzzFeed.

“On behalf of the millions of people around this country — and around the world — that your leadership symbolizes, thank you, a round of applause, to every plaintiff,” the White House Senior Adviser, who did not have to reserve a lawn chair and wait in line in front of the Supreme Court. “The world will be watching tomorrow. I will be there tomorrow.”

The SCOTUS will be deciding, of course, on the constitutionality of banning same-sex marriage. Lawyer Mary Bonauto, with lawyer Doug Hallward-Driemeier, will ask the Supreme Court justices to declare that no state will have the right to ban marriages between gay couple or lesbian couples, according to the Boston Globe. Currently, same-sex marriage is legal in 37 states, and Bonauto has a powerful ally, according to Buzzfeed: Tuesday, the U.S. government itself, by way of Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr., will be arguing that gay marriage bans are unconstitutional.

“The arc of the moral universe bent a little faster than even we thought it would,” White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett said. “But we still have a little ways to go. We have to win this case tomorrow.”

Tuesday Morning, #SCOTUS began trending on Twitter as the nation anticipated the high-profile marriage equality case.

[Photo via Stephen Crowley on Twitter]

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