Gov. Chris Christie’s administration is urging judicial restraint in gauging the effect in New Jersey of the U.S. Supreme Court’s partial voiding of the Defense of Marriage Act.
A Mercer County judge is soon to hear a motion for summary judgment declaring that the June 26 ruling in Windsor v. U.S., 133 S. Ct. 2675 — requiring that the full range of federal benefits enjoyed by heterosexual married couples be accorded to same-sex couples under the Fourteenth Amendment — necessitates legalizing gay marriage.
