I think Anthony Kennedy will want to be on the right side of history when DOMA eventually makes it to the Supreme Court and provide the crucial fifth vote...
Our very own Martha Coakley! She may have lost her Senate bid, but she is a great Attorney General. (Not that I wouldn't much rather have her working for this type of legislation in the Senate.)
12. The only way I see that happening is if he's reelected
and we get control of the House again, otherwise, he won't have much to do with it unless he tells the DOJ not to fight any court cases involving DOMA.
19. Not a chance of DOMA repeal getting through Congress.
It will be the courts, or it will be a wait of at least a decade--certainly until the next point of unified Democratic control, and maybe not even then (as we've seen these past two years.)
18. If we're going to get this done legislatively, then we'll need the people in place to do it
We're going to need 70 democratic senators and a 70 seat majority in the House, 75% public approval, and a fifth judge on the Supreme Court. And even THEN it will pass by the skin of the teeth.
Guess we better get started...this could take a decade or more.
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