Obama administration urges Supreme Court to strike down same-sex marriage ban

[JURIST] The Obama administration urged [brief, PDF] the US Supreme Court [official website] Thursday to strike down California's ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional in the case of Hollingsworth v. Perry [docket; cert. petition, PDF]. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, arguing that California's ban on same-sex marriage, known as Proposition 8 [text, PDF, JURIST news archive], violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Supreme Court will...

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