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Giving Up

by Josh Marshall
07.28.14 | 5:14 pm

North Carolina AG says his office will stop defending the state’s same-sex marriage ban in the Courts after today’s Virginia ruling because, under current law (the emerging judicial consensus over the meaning of Windsor) there just aren’t any arguments left to make.

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