When that happens, let us remember the semi-immortal words of Justice Kennedy:
...The
laws on marriage are typically made in the States, but there are many
questions that must arise in federal law about the meaning of marriage –
e. g., who counts as a “married couple” in immigration and
naturalization, in matters of taxation, or benefits in the military?
But
Justice Kennedy would write, with a straight face, that this federal
portion of DOMA had trodden upon the “historic and essential authority
[of the States] to define the marital relation,” and sought to
“influence or interfere with state sovereign choices about who may be
married.”
Why are those "semi-immortal" words?
Because Kennedy will kill them off.
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