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frazzled

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7. But best of all ...
Wed Jun 26, 2013, 11:02 AM
Jun 2013

Glenn Greenwald can come home to the US. Doesn't have to live in Brazil anymore. No more claiming that he can't because of his partner. Well, they'll have to get married. But bi-national couples can not now be denied visas.

This does open the door for bi-national same-sex couples to be treated equally under the law. That means that comprehensive immigration reform probably need not include a provision specifically tailored to making sure bi-national partners of same-sex couples can get visas automatically, the same as opposite-sex partners. As Paul Smith, a partner at Jenner & Block and arguably the leading gay rights litigator in the country (he won Lawrence v. Texas, overturning state bans on gay sex), told me, “My understanding is that the elimination of DOMA would by itself mean that all bi-national married couples would have the same rights, whether same sex or not.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/26/the-supreme-court-struck-down-doma-heres-what-you-need-to-know/


What are you waiting for, Glenn?

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