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Wonkbook: Obama’s Evolution Doesn’t Necessarily Change The Law Or The Election. But It Matters.
washingtonpost.com 3 weeks agoFor the President of the United States to endorse gay marriage is certainly, as Vice President Joe Biden would say, a big you-know-what deal. But what's actually changed this morning? In Slate, Emily Bazelon argues that President Obama's position was actually trailing his administration's legal strategy. They had long ago made the unusual choice to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act in the courts. That is to say, they had stopped defending a law that pits the federal government against states that c


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