They sat in their offices last week, eyes and ears focused on laptops. For a short time, at least, their own practice took a back seat to national events, as they focused on two days of historic hearings before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Like millions of Americans, they followed the streaming audio online and the running commentary on blogs and on television. But unlike most people, the Connecticut lawyers who had been involved with same-sex marriage cases and other aspects of LGBT law were looking to read between the lines and see which way the justices were leaning in regards to California’s Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage in that state, and the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as being between one man and one woman and bars gay couples from enjoying federal marriage benefits.
