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Weekly Comment: Justice
Anthony Kennedy’s Majority
Opinion in Gay Marriage Case

By Adam Farley, Deputy Editor
June 26, 2015

June 26, 2015 by Leave a Comment

In a five to four ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court effectively voted to overturn states’ bans on same-sex marriage June 26th – the same day as United States v. Windsor (which overturned the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013) and Lawrence v. Texas (which overturned a Texas law – and by extension all state laws – forbidding consensual sex between two persons of the same sex in 2003). … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment: Justice
Anthony Kennedy’s Majority
Opinion in Gay Marriage Case

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