Do Prop 8 Proponents Have Standing To Appeal? Ctd

This piece is the most informative I've found so far - and suggests that the Prop 8 proponents may well have no more recourse if the Ninth Circuit agrees with Walker that they have no standing to appeal. A reader writes:

As a trial attorney, I think people are smoking crack if they think the Supreme Court will approve gay marriage.

But here's the problem for the Supreme Court in overturning Judge Walker's decision (which they desperately want to do). There was almost no defense of Prop 8...