Slightly different issue. that's whether congress had the power in the first place to pass this law. given that congress has traditionally deferred to the state's to dough fine what marriage is. he seemed to indicate that he did not believe congress had a reason to set its own definition for marriage. and he said that it goes far beyond questions like taxes which were at play in edie windsor's place, given the large number of benefit of laws that this touches. some 1100 benefits available to opposite sex couples but not to same-sex couples who are legally married. he seemed to think that congr...