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Burning Down the House (with Barton Gellman)

Stay Tuned with Preet

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Harvard Law Students Succeed in Protecting LGBTQ Plus Veterans Families

The VA gives the surviving spouses of service members who died in the line of duty or from a service-related injury or illness, tax-free monetary compensation. But there has been a marriage requirement of eight years in order to receive enhanced benefits. This excluded same-sex couples because the Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which guaranteed the right to same-sex marriage, was decided in 2015,. only seven years ago.

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