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“Rachel Maddow: Defense of Marriage Act is Unconstitutional”

by The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC
 

Chris Hayes interviews Martha Coakley, Massachusettes Attorney General, who tells us about the expanded federal benefits of married GLBT people in her state.

The judge found that the government's arguments for restricting marriage to one man and one woman "strains credulity" and that "irrational prejudice plainly never constitutes a legitimate government interest." The judge found DOMA to be unconstitutional on two counts. First, it violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fifth Amendment. Second, it interferes with states rights as guaranteed in the Tenth Amendment—the Don't Tread on Me amendment.

“Rachel Maddow: What the DOMA ruling means for marriage”

by The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC

Tobias Wolff, professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, explains the legal aspects of the ruling in an interview by Chris Hayes.

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