Will the Supreme Court recognize Edith Windsor?

Here, Amy Davidson writes that there is “something distinct about Edith Windsor, the plaintiff in the case challenging the Defense of Marriage Act… Windsor’s biography… isn’t so different from those of the Justices, or of those in their social and cultural circles.” Continue reading: http://nyr.kr/Zg5iTM

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Margaret Talbot looks at the arguments challenging the constitutionality of same-sex-marriage bans that will go before the Supreme Court in March: “Maybe love’s not all you need in a definition of marriage, but it’s got to be in there somewhere…” http://nyr.kr/XR0WC8