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Religious Leaders, Members of Congress, High-Ranking Service Members Support Challenge to DOMA (aclu)

**Friend-of-the-Court Briefs to be Filed in Support of Edie Windsor’s Case
Before the Supreme Court**

**March 1, 2013**

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org

WASHINGTON – More than 45 briefs from religious leaders, members of Congress,
retired military generals, children’s advocacy groups, civil rights groups and
others will be filed today in support of Edith “Edie” Windsor’s challenge
before the U.S. Supreme Court to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

After the death of her legal spouse, Thea Spyer, Windsor was forced to pay
more than $360,000 in estate taxes — money she would not have had to pay had
she been married to a man instead of a woman. Windsor sued the federal
government for failing to recognize her marriage. She is represented by
attorneys from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP; the American
Civil Liberties Union; the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Stanford Law
School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic.

One of the briefs to be filed is from 40 current U.S. senators and 172
representatives. A second brief to be filed from former U.S. senators who
initially voted for DOMA – Bill Bradley, Tom Daschle, Christopher Dodd and
Alan Simpson – acknowledges that …

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