This ruling is a direct challenge to the part of the Defense of Marriage Act which says that states don’t have to recognize each others’ same sex marriages.
RE: This ruling is a direct challenge to the part of the Defense of Marriage Act
The Obama administration has all but scuttled this law.
Just look at what happened after Obummer became President...
* The Obama administration announced in 2011 that it had concluded Section 3 was unconstitutional and that although the administration would continue to enforce the law while it existed, it would no longer defend the law in court.
* In United States v. Windsor (2013), the U.S. Supreme Court declared Section 3 of DOMA unconstitutional under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
DOMA has in effect — NO TEETH.