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    The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was a United States federal law passed by the 104th United States Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton...
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    2022 and signed into law by President Joe Biden. It repeals the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), requires the U.S. federal government and all U.S. states...
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  • The State Marriage Defense Act (H.R. 3829, S. 2024 in the 113th Congress, H.R. 824, S. 435 in the 114th Congress) was a proposed law introduced by Republican...
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    state level to restrict marriage to male-female couples, notably the enactment at the federal level of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). On May 17, 2004...
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    a role in the administration's decision to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) after concluding that the statute was unconstitutional....
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    Republican-controlled United States House of Representatives to take on the case of defending the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage in federal law as the union...
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  • Defense of marriage amendment or Defense of marriage act may refer to: Defense of Marriage Act, the statute banning federal recognition of same-sex marriage...
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    hear or decide any question pertaining to the interpretation of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) or the MPA itself. Introduced as H.R. 3313 during the...
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  • Marriage Act may refer to a number of pieces of legislation: Marriage Act 1961, Australia's law that governs legal marriage. Marriage Amendment (Definition...
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    22, the "California Defense of Marriage Act", is almost the same as that of a federal law, the Defense of Marriage Act, which was enacted by Congress...
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