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    Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 25 Mar 2017

    Four years ago this weekend, @kaplanrobbie was finishing preparing for her arguments in US v. Windsor, Edie Windsor's challenge to DOMA.

    1:14 PM - 25 Mar 2017
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      2. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 25 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        Here's the story that came out of my extended interview with Edie (and Robbie), which ran in January 2103:https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/meet-the-hero-of-the-marriage-equality-movement?utm_term=.yuJlgyxeA9#.uleKMDQxZR …

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      3. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 25 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        Days before SCOTUS args, Rob Portman became the first sitting GOP senator to publicly support of marriage equality.https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/ohio-senator-rob-portman-announces-support-for-marriage-equa?utm_term=.dwGlmNo08W#.ehmnzVPLqE …

        2 replies 10 retweets 24 likes
      4. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 25 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        In the days ahead of the arguments, I highlighted the vision of @evanwolfson and @sullydish in pushing for marriage:https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/the-lawyer-and-writer-who-made-marriage-equality-happen?utm_term=.mlVXJpDL2W#.wdEO6aoPjB …

        1 reply 8 retweets 13 likes
      5. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 25 Mar 2017
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        Later in the year, I spent a day with Mary Bonauto—the lawyer who won the Mass. marriage case (& later, at SCOTUS):https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/how-the-idea-of-marriage-equality-became-reality?utm_term=.pqRP2YZNDk#.tpr0AKMQBZ …

        2 replies 8 retweets 23 likes
      6. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 25 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        When Windsor was heard on March 27, 2013, only nine states plus DC had equal marriage rights for same-sex couples.

        1 reply 9 retweets 8 likes
      7. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 25 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        Here was my report on what happened at #SCOTUS that week: https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/is-treating-married-couples-differently-constitutional?utm_term=.okdOJqkRw9#.emNragXEDl … [📷: Reuters]pic.twitter.com/psZikh48i8

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      8. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 25 Mar 2017
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        Of course, three months later, Justice Kennedy, for a 5-4 court, said DOMA's ban was unconstitutional. https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/supreme-court-tips-scales-of-justice-toward-marriage-equalit?utm_term=.ac4m5gBeDw#.xcJ3rBe9P5 … / My opening:pic.twitter.com/qu8fH5zRBf

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      9. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 25 Mar 2017
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        I also talked to Edie and Robbie that afternoon. Here's what they had to say: https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/edie-windsor-talks-about-her-victory-it-just-feels-glorious?utm_term=.ujWO5E1emW#.gq8vWQV12z …pic.twitter.com/ZafHgyETdh

        1 reply 4 retweets 7 likes
      10. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 25 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        Despite the time it took him to get there, the role that Obama played in moving the federal gov't on marriage shouldn't be ignored.

        1 reply 3 retweets 17 likes
      11. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 25 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        It wasn't until Feb. 23, 2011, that then-AG Holder announced the government would no longer defend DOMA in court.

        2 replies 2 retweets 2 likes
      12. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 25 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        But, by time Edie Windsor was at #SCOTUS, DOJ was these, solidly on her side. DOJ's brief: https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/obama-administration-urges-supreme-court-to-strike-down-doma?utm_term=.wkpJwlObpZ#.jeL6j70rgP …

        2 replies 3 retweets 9 likes
      13. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 25 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        And, of course, by the time @JimObergefell got to #SCOTUS — read his story here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/his-huband-died-in-2013-but-jim-obergefell-is-still-fighting … — Obama was all the way on board.

        1 reply 2 retweets 9 likes
      14. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 25 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        In March 2015, the Obama administration urged #SCOTUS to take marriage equality nationwide.https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/obama-administration-urges-nationwide-end-to-same-sex-marria?utm_term=.iqODOydq2z#.ptj8DZ2kyr …

        1 reply 4 retweets 14 likes
      15. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 25 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        In June 2015 (of course), that's what the court, in another Kennedy opinion, did. https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/supreme-court-rules-for-nationwide-marriage-equality?utm_term=.hp8wvGOQg3#.keRo8Nkp45 …

        1 reply 3 retweets 9 likes
      16. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 25 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        And here we are two years later with a Republican president and his Supreme Court nominee — both of whom call that ruling "settled" law.

        3 replies 4 retweets 14 likes
      17. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 25 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        All of that is a long way of saying, "Well, it's been quite a four years since we didn't even know if Kennedy would strike down DOMA."

        1 reply 5 retweets 9 likes
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      1. Diane Marshall  🌺‏ @duhgurlz 25 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner @kaplanrobbie

        such a great outcome 4 all (but was really really happy 4 her💝)

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      1. Shannon Fauver, Fauver Law‏ @fauverlaw 25 Mar 2017
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        and two years ago we were heading to DC for the marriage equality cases.

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      1. (((Str8Grandmother)))‏ @Str8Grandmother 25 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner @kaplanrobbie

        Honestly it seems like yesterday

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