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Fri Mar 1, 2013, 02:38 PM Mar 2013

212 Democratic Members of Congress FILE Amicus Brief Opposing DOMA

A group of 212 mostly Democratic members of Congress filed a brief Friday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the 1996 federal law recognizing marriage as a union between members of the opposite sex.

The lawmakers’ brief states that the law “imposes a sweeping and unjustifiable federal disability on married same-sex couples.”

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