If Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker is looking for a little more ammunition to shoot down California's Proposition 8 ban on gay marriage, one of his Massachusetts colleagues has given him some. U.S. District Judge Joseph Tauro ruled Thursday that the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as a heterosexual union, violated the Equal Protection Clause. Tauro found that DOMA didn't survive rational basis review, which is the least exacting form of constitutional scrutiny.
July 09, 2010 at 12:00 AM
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If Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker is looking for a little more ammunition in order to shoot down Proposition 8, one of his Massachusetts colleagues just gave him some.
U.S. District Judge Joseph Tauro ruled Thursday that the federal Defense of Marriage Act violated the Equal Protection Clause. Congress passed DOMA in 1996, defining marriage as a heterosexual union for purposes of a host of federal benefits and classifications.
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