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Supreme Court decisions highlight political challenges facing GOP
For the second time in two days, the Supreme Court struck at the heart of the Republican Party platform. Yet the response to Friday’s same-sex marriage ruling was mild in comparison with the outrage that followed the court’s decision Thursday to uphold President Barack Obama’s health care law.
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Long struggle, quick endgame as marriage equality becomes law of the land
In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed a law stipulating that the federal government would not recognize marriages of same-sex couples. On Friday night, the White House was illuminated in rainbow colors to celebrate the Supreme Court ruling legalizing such marriages in every state of the nation. For gay rights activists, the two decades between those moments were marked by a dramatic mix of setbacks and victories.
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Liberal justices prevail in this year’s high-profile U.S. Supreme Court cases
With a notable paucity of dissents and not a single word to say about same-sex marriage, health care or housing discrimination, the court’s liberal justices prevailed in almost every important case in recent months.
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‘Baker v. Nelson’ same-sex marriage pioneer hails U.S. Supreme Court ruling
A Minnesota man who fought for his own same-sex marriage more than 40 years ago is celebrating the landmark Supreme Court ruling that said gay couples can marry anywhere in the country.
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Q&A: Where Texas stands following Supreme Court marriage decision
Here’s an update on how same-sex marriage is reverberating across Texas after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that gays and lesbians have the right to wed.
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Tears and sniffles in courtroom as Kennedy reads ‘No union is more profound than marriage’
When Justice Anthony Kennedy took the bench Friday at the Supreme Court, some were thinking about his past decisions and other June 26ths.
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Q&A: What the Supreme Court’s same‑sex marriage ruling means
The decades-long debate about whether same-sex marriage should be allowed in the United States was finally settled Friday when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled gay and lesbian couples can get married anywhere in the country.
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White House lit in rainbow colors after Supreme Court marriage ruling
The White House is lit up in rainbow colors in commemoration of the Supreme Court’s ruling to legalize same-sex marriage.
Gay and lesbian couples in Washington and across the nation are celebrating Friday’s ruling, which will put an end to same-sex marriage bans in the 14 states that still maintain them.
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Obama lauds high court ruling on same-sex marriage, calls to congratulate lead plaintiff
President Barack Obama, who himself has acknowledged an evolution over gay rights, said Friday that the Supreme Court’s ruling giving same-sex couples the right to marry nationwide represents a day when justice “arrives like a thunderbolt.”
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U.S. Supreme Court rules for nationwide marriage equality
Same-sex couples won the right to marry nationwide Friday as a divided Supreme Court handed a crowning victory to the LGBT rights movement, setting off a jubilant cascade of long-delayed weddings in states where they had been forbidden.