[applause] while we are at it, let me say one thing about doma.the reason i signed it, i said at the time, whether gays should marry it should be led up to the -- left up to the states and religious organizations. we were attempting, at the time, in a reactionary congress, to head off an attempt to send a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage to the states. if you look up the referendum later in 2004 in the election with the republicans put on the ballot to get to president bush, i think it is obvious that something had to be done to try and keep the republican congress to say that the president does not be till evaporated the congress can refer constitutional amendments to the states. i did not like signing doma and i did not like the contrast and benefits. i did everything i could. the state department was the first federal department to restore benefits to gay partners in the obama administration. i think we are going in the right direction now for federal employees. i don't like doma. all these things illustrate the point i am trying t

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today the obama administration filed court papers saying that the 1996 defense of marriage act, doma, discriminates against the gay and lesbian community. the administration urges repeal of the law but says in the meantime it will have to defend a law that's on the books. justice department attorneys issued court papers in an effort to dismiss a california lawsuit brought by a gay couple challenging that doma act. >>> a high ranking judge in texas who presided over countless cases is finding herself on the other side of the defendant. judge sharon keller faces misconduct. the trial began today. she's accused of closing her court, the night a convicted killer was put to death two years ago. lawyers for michael wayne richard were trying to file a last-minute appeal before he was executed. that never happened. judge keller refused, saying the clerk's office closed at 5:00 p.m. >>> she refused to accept an appeal that was perfectly legitimate. for her to say we close at 5:00 when a man's life is on the line, that's so wrong. she has violated legal ethics and i think she should get her. >>