Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Defense of Marriage Act
And it looks like DOMA’s going to fall
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The Republican Party is spending millions to try to prevent marriage equality, but the Supreme Court looks to be poised to strike down the bigoted Defense of Marriage Act.
WASHINGTON — A majority of the justices on Wednesday questioned the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996, as the Supreme Court took up the volatile issue of same-sex marriage for a second day.
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, widely considered the swing vote on the divided court, joined the four liberals in posing skeptical questions to a lawyer defending the law, which defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman for the purposes of more than 1,000 federal laws and programs.
