Wednesday, June 26, 20130351The federal Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, defining marriage as between one man and one woman is unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause, the Supreme Court ruled June 26 in a 5-4 opinion. In a separate case, the court sent back to lower courts a challenge to California's Proposition 8, the voter-approved initiative barring...
Tuesday, June 25, 2013037The Supreme Court June 25 overturned the part of the Voting Rights Act used to determine that 15 states have had to comply with the law's protections for minority voters. The 5-4 decision said: "Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional; its formula can no longer be used as a basis for subjecting jurisdictions to...
