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I welcome the outcome of today’s decision as a significant improvement in our institution of marriage. Certainly it is a momentous change in that institution, and many people will rejoice at the new opportunities it opens up for them. However, because I do not think it is the proper role of the federal judiciary to effect such a change, I must respectfully dissent from what has been decided here today.

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What Obergefell v. Hodges Should Have Said: The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Same-Sex Marriage Decision

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Jack M. Balkin

Publication Date

2020

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