Post Tagged with: "defense of marriage act"

• CR-CL Podcast – Episode 2 – Perry v. Brown, Marriage Equality, and the Contraceptive Mandate

  Podcast February 19, 2012 12:00 pm 2 comments

  CR-CL’s Executive Editors for Online Content, Noah Kaplan and Matt Giffin, return to discuss the important topics in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Noah interviews California Western Law Professor Ari Ezra Waldman about the Ninth Circuit’s recent opinion in Perry v. Brown and the potential for a Supreme Court decision on the constitutional right to marriage equality. Matt fills us in on the controversy that has erupted over the Obama administration’s health care mandate requiring religious employers to provide contraceptive coverage at no cost to their employees.

   
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  Practical realities force recognition of same sex couples' rights

  LGBTQ Rights, Race and Immigration August 26, 2011 1:37 pm 4 comments

  Following on New York’s legalization of gay marriage at the end of June came another encouraging development for same sex couples in the immigration sphere:  changing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) priorities may delay or cancel deportations of immigrants married to U.S. citizens of the same sex, despite the federal Defense of Marriage Act [...]

   
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  DOJ's Powerful DOMA Brief in the 9th Circuit

  By Jason Lee, Courts, Issue Areas, LGBTQ Rights July 22, 2011 4:10 pm no comments

  As the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is (hopefully) hopefully underway, with a possible certification by top Pentagon officials in the coming days, CRCL would be remiss if we failed to applaud the Department of Justice’s recent Brief in Opposition to Motions to Dismiss in the 9th Circuit case, [...]

   

• Congress Hires Attorney to Defend DOMA, while Poll Indicates Majority of Americans Support Gay Marriage

  Issue Areas, LGBTQ Rights April 20, 2011 9:31 am no comments

  The House of Representatives has hired a prominent attorney, Paul Clement, to defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) against pending constitutional challenges. Clement is a former solicitor general, who is also currently representing a group of states in a lawsuit against the health care reform recently passed by Congress. [...]

   

• Justice Department Will Not Fully Defend DOMA

  Issue Areas, LGBTQ Rights February 23, 2011 9:11 pm 2 comments

  Contrary to the suggestion of one Amicus author, the Justice Department today announced that it will stop defending parts of the Defense of Marriage Act in federal court. The Washington Post, citing many of the same arguments put forth in that Amicus post, calls the move risky. Amicus will of course continue to cover the developments on the legal and social fallout from this decision.

   

• NY Times Wrong on DOMA Defense

  By Noah Kaplan, Issue Areas, LGBTQ Rights February 14, 2011 2:30 pm 5 comments

  The Editorial Board of the New York Times today encourages the Obama Justice Department to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act in federal court.  The law, they say, is “blatant discrimination” that should be “presumed to be unconstitutional.”  With this, I agree.  DOMA, signed into law by Bill Clinton, [...]