Another Reason To Kill DOMA: College Financial Aid

October 20, 2011

The New York Times looked at the federal student financial aid process and found bizarre results for kids from same-sex households.

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Who Should Defend An Indefensible Law?

April 29, 2011

Lawyers who defend accused criminals or unpopular causes often field the question, “How can you take on such a case?” The standard answer is that everyone deserves a day in court, which is true, and the standard rebuttal is that not every lawyer must take every case, which is also true. So the contradiction stands. We can accept the principle that every side in a case deserves good representation, but …

Defense Of Marriage Act Proves Indefensible

February 24, 2011

President Obama, who is a former constitutional scholar, and his chief legal beagle had a belated but welcome epiphany yesterday: A president is not obliged to defend an indefensible law, and the Defense of Marriage Act is indefensible. In other words, just what I wrote in June 2009, after Obama and his Justice Department offered offensive justifications, including long-ago incestuous and adolescent marriages, for the federal government’s refusal to recognize …

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The Plain, Irrational Truth About DOMA

July 9, 2010

The judge who yesterday struck down much of the federal Defense of Marriage Act is not a liberal activist or a promoter of some “homosexual agenda,” though he is no stranger to bold judicial rulings. U.S. District Judge Joseph L. Tauro of Boston is a married 79-year-old grandfather, a former U.S. Army missile officer and a one-time federal prosecutor whom President Richard Nixon appointed to the federal bench in 1972. …

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