The proponents of Proposition 22 say that (it) doesn't deny hospital visitation or inheritance rights for lesbians and gays, ... But in Florida and Virginia, arch-conservative legal organizations have used similar laws as tools in court to deny lesbians and gays fundamental rights -- like the right to visit a sick or injured partner in the hospital, the right to inheritance, or the right to health insurance.

Gil Garcetti

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they're ready to take it wherever it goes.

— Gil Garcetti

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They want us to move fast -- 'come on here,' in essence, 'rubber stamp what we've done.' That's not our job. We have an independent role and responsibility.

— Gil Garcetti

Sure people have said I'm going to announce indictments a week before the election, ... I'll guarantee you that's not going to happen.

— Gil Garcetti

If you cannot have faith and trust in your police officer --
either as a citizen or as a juror or as a judge, as defense
lawyers, as a district attorney -- then we do not have an
acceptable, a viable criminal justice system,

— Gil Garcetti

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There is no legal authority for the chief to thumb his nose at us -- and I won't accept it, ... I won't tolerate it.

— Gil Garcetti