Summary of US Response: 1) The Court Lacks Jurisdiction. (2) The Plaintiff’s Lack Standing. (3) DOMA Is a Valid Exercise of Congress’s Power under the Full Faith and Credit Clause. (4) DOMA Cannot Be Said to Violate an Asserted “Right to Travel”. (5) DOMA Is Consistent with Equal Protection and Due Process Principles. (6) DOMA Does Not Violate the Right to Privacy. (7) DOMA Cannot Be Said to Infringe Upon any Rights of Speech. (8) DOMA Cannot Be Said to Infringe Upon any “Right” under the Ninth Amendment.
So that is the response of the Department of Justice to the Complaint, generally. The question thus remains, “Is the memorandum, written by attorneys for the Department of Justice, on behalf of the United States of America, whose Chief Executive Officer is Barack Obama, the opinion of the President of the United States?”
The duty of the United States in these cases is to aggressively defend legislation unless such legislation is blatantly unconstitutional. We started believing in the United States again and the American dream only to have that faith stab us in the guts at the passage of Proposition 8, Amendment 2 and the countless other unconstitutional state bans on equality. There is no time like the present to stand up with those who stood so strongly with you rather than take a “wait and see” attitude. They have taken away our liberty to marry, they have challenged our pursuit of happiness, they have even taken many of our lives – but they cannot and shall not have our “HOPE.”
Obama Administrations Anti Gay DOMA Memorandum In Review
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