(Buzzfeed) House Republican leaders announced in a court filing Thursday that
they will not defend remaining statutes similar to the Defense of Marriage Act
that ban recognition of same-sex couples’ marriages.
The move comes three weeks and one day after the Supreme Court ruled in Edith
Windsor’s case that the federal definition of marriage in DOMA was
unconstitutional because it banned the federal government from recognizing
same-sex couples’ marriages.
"[T]he House has determined, in light of the Supreme Court’s opinion in Windsor,
that it no longer will defend that statute," lawyers for the House Bipartisan
Legal Advisory Group (BLAG), controlled by House Republicans, wrote about
veterans' benefits statutes that similarly ban recognition of same-sex couples'
marriages.
"The document from the legal team speaks for itself," House Speaker John
Boehner’s spokesman, Michael Steel, told BuzzFeed, when asked for comment on the
move.
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