windsor before the highest court in the land. edith windsor marry her wife in canada. when her wife died she was forced to pay $360,000 in inheritance tax, because the marriage was not recognized by doma. the obama administration refused to defend it. a lawyer for the white house speaking today, drawing tough questioning from six of the nine justices. >> well, is what happened in 1996, and i'm going to quote from the house report here, is that congress decided to reflect and honor a collective moral judgment and express moral disapproval of homosexuality. is that what happened in 1996? what gives the federal government the right to be concerned that all at what the definition of marriage is? >> when it has 1,100 laws, which in our society means that the federal government is
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