From TPM: On Sunday night, the drafting committee for the Democratic Party platform voted unanimously to include a plank supporting marriage equality, a Democratic source confirmed to TPM. The move comes after months of pressure from Democratic lawmakers, party officials and outside groups. The movement got a boost in May…
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From ConLaw Blog: With President Obama making news this week proclaiming his personal support for same-sex marriage, after an extensive “evolution,” it’s a good time to take a look at scholarship on the constitutional arguments. Obama specifically mentioned same-sex couples “raising kids together.” But one of the more odd –…
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From NYT: A federal appeals court on Tuesday declared California’s same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional, putting the bitterly contested, voter-approved law on track for likely consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that a lower court judge…
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From the AP: “A Texas judge plans to void the marriage of a transgender widow, preventing her from getting the death benefits of her firefighter husband who died last year battling a blaze….The suit claimed Nikki Araguz should receive no benefits because she was born a man and Texas doesn’t…
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