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Congress Short title Bill number(s) Date introduced Sponsor(s) # of cosponsors Latest status 111th Congress: Respect for Marriage Act of 2009 H.R. 3567: September 15, 2009 Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D–NY) 120 Referred to the House Judiciary Committee. Referred to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
”The fact that Congress had to take up this issue in 2022 should be a stark reminder of that fact for us." For younger interracial couples, the thought that their right to marry could ever be ...
[254] [non-primary source needed] New York: In People v. Liberta, judge Sol Wachtler states that "a marriage license should not be viewed as a license for a husband to forcibly rape his wife with impunity. A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman". [255] [non-primary source needed]
A second federal judge on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship, saying it’s likely unconstitutional and “runs counter to our ...
MORE: Trump's definition of 'male,' 'female' criticized by medical and legal experts. The lawsuit lists seven plaintiffs. In a news release, the ACLU said more than 1,500 transgender people or ...
The Concerned Women for America (CWA), an anti-feminist group, were concerned about the wording of the 2004 Federal Marriage Amendment. CWA criticized the language in the amendment because the second sentence is open to differing interpretations, and its drafters acknowledged that it was specifically worded so state legislators could create ...
Freedom to Marry was the national bipartisan [1] organization dedicated to winning marriage for same-sex couples in the United States. Freedom to Marry was founded in New York City in 2003 by Evan Wolfson. Wolfson served as president of the organization through the June 2015 victory at the Supreme Court, until the organization's official ...
Some government webpages briefly went dark Friday after federal agencies were told to comply with a White House order on removing certain language pertaining to diversity, equity and inclusion.