San Francisco Chronicle, June 23, 2009 by Bob Egelko
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/23/MNPL18BIJJ.DTL&type=printable
“What the president said is politics. What the brief said is their position on the law,” said Jesse Choper of UC Berkeley. Still, he said, a judge who decided to reject the government’s argument could quote the president’s words. Carter, Choper mused, might say something like, “Of course it discriminates, as President Obama said.”