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Why presidents address Congress from the middle tier, and how Trump could speak from the top next year, writes John Casey.
Gay couples have been marrying in Massachusetts for more than three years, but the battle over same-sex marriage in the only state that allows it is anything but settled. Lawmakers will meet Thursday in a special joint session to decide the fate of a proposed state constitutional amendment that would overturn the landmark 2003 court ruling granting gays the right to marry.
U.S. Rep. Emily Randall also wondered why JD Vance stood behind the president “palms up in the air as if trying to get a crowd to rise.”
A year after the nation's first state-sanctioned same-sex marriages went into effect, the Massachusetts legislature on Wednesday rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage and legalize civil unions.
Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney said Sunday he would ask the state's highest court to order an anti-same-sex marriage measure onto the ballot if legislators fail to vote on the matter when they reconvene in January.
The address to a joint session of Congress was marked by bluster, exaggeration, and outright lies.
"There was a lot of darkness and it was a lot of dazzle, but there was very, very little about the things that most affect our lives," the former transportation secretary said.
This is President Obama's first State of the Union address.
President Joe Biden's address to a joint session of Congress included support of the Equality Act.
Never before has a leader of the Roman Catholic Church addressed a joint session of Congress, and Pope Francis seized the opportunity to express his view on marriage equality.
“I won’t sit and watch him lie,” Vermont Democratic Congresswoman Becca Balint said.
Beset by unending controversies, the unpopular president will try to turn this ship around.
