All posts tagged "doma"
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Barack Obama's speech at HRC's National Dinner 2011 [video]
On Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011, President Barack Obama addressed the 15th annual Human Rights Campaign national dinner. In addition to touting the administration's accomplishments --...
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Trial Judge Rejects DOMA Challenge in Immigration Case, Citing ’82 Appeals Court Ruling
Writing that he was bound by a 1982 appeals court decision whose reasoning the U.S. Department of Justice had argued was “no longer valid today,”...
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Becoming Law
The conclusion of a four-part series marking the 15th anniversary of the passage of the Defense of Marriage Act By the time the Senate passed...
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Memory Lanes
Memories are the sorts of things that get easily tangled with the passage of time. Over the past few years, I've spent more time going...
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DOMA Is “Becoming Law” in This Week’s Metro Weekly
This week’s article — “Becoming Law” — will be is the conclusion of a four-part series marking the 15th anniversary of the passage of the...
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Obama Talks Bullying, DOMA and Immigration at White House Roundtable
Today, President Obama talked about bullying and the Defense of Marriage Act over the course of a 50-minute “Open for Questions” roundtable moderated by Jose...
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Sen. Susan Collins Hasn’t “Looked At” Federal Impact of DOMA on Same-Sex Couples
Over the course of 2011, the Defense of Marriage Act has been front and center in several public debates, most notably when the Obama administration...
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Double Defeat
Part three of a series marking the 15th anniversary of the passage of the Defense of Marriage Act The day before the House of Representatives...
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House General Counsel Opposes Recording of Golinski DOMA Challenge
In Karen Golinski’s challenge to the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, House general counsel Kerry Kircher signed a filing stating that the House’s...
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DOJ Argues DOMA’s Unconstitutionality Holds, Even in Immigration Context
To follow up on Metro Weekly‘s report, “Defending DOMA, Fighting Back,” about the Department of Justice filing on Friday, Sept. 2, in a challenge to...
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Defending DOMA, Fighting Back
Hamdi Lui and Michael Ernest Roberts, a same-sex couple married in Massachusetts but living in California, brought a case aimed at keeping Lui – a...
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Six Months Later
It was only six months ago that Attorney General Eric Holder sent the letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), informing Boehner that he and...
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Cain: Obama’s Decision to Stop Defending DOMA Is “Impeachable Offense”
Today, LifeSiteNews.com’s Jeremy Kryn reported that GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain told a group of bloggers on a conference call held Aug. 16 that President...
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DOJ Tells Court That Edith Windsor’s DOMA Claim Should Be Granted
Back on July 1, the Department of Justice took a big step in defining what its Feb. 23 decision that the federal definition of marriage...
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House GOP Leaders Say Court Should Dismiss Edith Windsor’s Lawsuit, Find DOMA Constitutional
The House Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG) has been defending the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in court since President Barack Obama and Attorney General...
