Department of Justice will file brief in support of same-sex marriage at SCOTUS

US Attorney General Eric Holder told ABC News this weekend that the Department of Justice is prepared to file a brief in support of same-sex marriage should Utah, or any other state, bring their case to the US Supreme Court.

From LGBTQ Nation:

Holder said the brief would be “consistent with the actions that we have taken over the past couple of years,” after the Obama Administration refused to defend a section of the Defense of Marriage Act that defined marriage as between one man and one woman, and filed a brief urging the Supreme Court to strike down that provision.

Last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled in a challenge to Utah’s same-sex marriage ban, that states cannot prohibit two people from marrying simply because they choose a partner of the same-sex.

It was the first time a federal appeals court ruled that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry.