White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said in an exchange with The Advocate [1] that he didn’t know how Obama viewed the legality of the Defense of Marriage Act.
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Gibbs said: “I have not heard the president intone what he believes the constitutionality of the law is. I know that he believes the law should be changed.
Legal decisions around next steps in that case, I believe, will be made at the Justice Department and I would point you over there to them.
Again, the president believes, in this case, and the president believes in the case of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell that those are laws that he has believed for quite some time should be changed.”
Last month, a federal judge in Mass. found part of DOMA unconstitutional [3] in two separate cases. The federal government is expected to appeal the Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Health and Human Services case, even if Obama disagrees with DOMA.
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