From our reporter in the room at the DOMA hearing …
DOMA just took a beating at SCOTUS. Four liberal justices & Kennedy highly skeptical it’s constitutional.
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) March 27, 2013
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As you likely know, today is round two for marriage equality before the Supreme Court, with the constitutionality of DOMA on the dock. Here’s a quick run-down of what the possible outcomes appear to be. The conventional wisdom is that this case is the more likely candidate for the Court to use to make a broad decision — one that could take the federal government out of anti-gay discrimination business, at least to the extent of forcing the federal government to treat all state-sanctioned marriages on equal terms, whether they’re for same or opposite sex couples.
We’ll bring you live reports as soon as today’s oral arguments are done.
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With today’s arguments before the Supreme Court there is one clear and overwhelming consensus in the country: full marriage equality is the future. It’s just a question of how long. How many years (months?) until you and your same sex fiance can get married in Alabama and how long till the Social Security Administration recognizes your relationship with your same sex spouse (seems sooner for the latter than the former)? Relatedly, in political terms, it seems clear that gay rights’ days are numbered as a right-wing wedge issue; and it may soon play as a wedge issue on the other side of the partisan divide. Read More
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