Since 2015, when the Supreme Court established constitutional same-sex marriage rights, the number of Americans in such marriages has risen to more than 1.1 million. The picture is far different today, she noted. Baldwin started working on marriage and domestic partnership legislation as a member of the Dane County board of supervisors and in the Wisconsin State Assembly in the 1990s, at time when, she said, “all the results were bad.”
The issue has defined her career in public office. (She also made history in 1999 with her election to the House, the first openly gay woman to serve there.) Never one to seek attention, she played down the historic nature of her victory when she won her Senate seat 10 years ago, getting halfway through her speech before she mentioned that she was “well aware” that her election was a milestone for gay rights. Baldwin, the epitome of Midwestern nice who enjoys sewing and cooking - hobbies she describes as “boring” - is in some ways an unlikely arm-twister for the effort. In a matter of hours, a bill that many thought would be dead on arrival in the Senate became the subject of an intensive legislative push. Schumer said he would work to find the necessary votes to move it past a filibuster and to a vote. But 47 Republicans voted in favor - less than a quarter of the conference yet a larger proportion than expected - and Mr. The House moved quickly to pass the same-sex marriage bill, as Democrats rushed to put themselves on the record on the issue and Republicans on the spot ahead of the elections. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Justice Clarence Thomas suggested that the court also “should reconsider” past rulings that established marriage equality and access to contraception. In a concurring opinion in the abortion case, Dobbs v. Democrats are pressing to enact the legislation in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling that overturned the nearly 50-year-old right to an abortion, amid concern that precedents on same-sex marriages and protecting the rights of such couples could be the next to fall.
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