a legal term of art. state police power. as distinct. the federal government has no police powers. it s the state that has the police power to regulate these kind of things. that s his point. howard, same question. we were talking about it before. what happens if the federal government says, you can t have social security. you can t have inheritance rights. all these things. you can t have spousal privileges under the tax law. isn t the federal government then regulating marriage as the justice is saying? well, if they the reason why currently married couples in states that allow same-sex marriage have a skim milk marriage, to quote justice ginsberg, is that because of the way marriage is defined in doma, for the purposes of this law, it says, it s a marriage of a man and a woman, that means that those people can t get those benefits. but if you if you get rid of that portion of it, and if you start giving federal benefits all for the full pan pli of federal benefits to same-se
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