By The Huffington Post News Editors
WASHINGTON –Twelve hours before the Supreme Court takes up one of the biggest civil rights cases in a generation, Dave Odenbach was handing out lollipops.
“You want a Tootsie Pop?” the Minnesota native asked those who had camped our for days to witness oral arguments in the case that will decide the fate of California’s gay marriage ban. Odenbach, now a D.C. resident, said he couldn’t just sit around as people camped out to hear Hollingsworth v. Perry at 10 a.m. on Tuesday. So he picked up some Tootsie Pops from a CVS in Logan Circle and headed to the Supreme Court building.
“I’m super envious of the people coming in and doing this, and I just thought, I can’t not come down and say hi to the people and cheer them on,” Odenbach told The Huffington Post. “So I just thought I’m coming on down, and I’m bringing Tootsie Pops as a little gift.”