WASHINGTON – House Speaker John Boehner, R.-Ohio, said on Friday that he is launching a legal defense of the federal law that limits the definition of marriage to the union between one man and one woman.
President Barack Obama last month announced that he had determined, after consultation with Attorney General Eric Holder, that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) would not pass constitutional muster under a heightened review standard. As a result, Mr. Holder said he would inform district courts in the Second Circuit as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, where cases are pending, that the department would no longer defend the law although the administration would continue to enforce its provisions denying federal benefits to same-sex partners, even where such unions are legally recognized (NYLJ, Feb. 24).
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