US V. Windsor Case Analysis

Since the beginning of the nation, when the judicial branch was made in the United States constitution. The judicial branch was the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), in which they have to judge a case with the law of congress and the constitution to be able to see if it constitutional or unconstitutional. Overtime in the Supreme Court, there have been many cases with civil right and civil liberties. When defining civil rights, it is the rights given to citizens and is protected by the nation government. As all American citizens have freedom and rights that cannot be taken away. A Supreme Court case that has to do with an American civil rights is United State v. Windsor.
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A group that got involved to defend the law was “the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the House of Representatives (BLAG), filed a petition to intervene in defense of DOMA and motioned to dismiss the case” (United States v. Windsor, n.d., para. 3). However, they denied dismissing case. Then BLAG made a petition for SCOTUS to review the verdict of the case. Additionally another group involved was American Civil Liberties Union, and “with representation by the ACLU… Windsor challenge the constitutionality of DOMA and seek a refund of the estate tax she was unfairly forced to pay” (American Civil Liberties Union, 2014, para. 5). In the district level, they were able to help Windsor get a refund, yet BLAG went to SCOTUS to see the decision of the case, as they thought it was not a legal marriage. When in the Supreme Court, ruled that DOMA was unconstitutional. From the district level to the Supreme Court the number of groups was the same as both group were involved. Nevertheless, the decision met the objectives of the ACLU and Windsor as they got what they wanted unlike BLAG. Nonetheless, the court case helped change from laws in the