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On the recordJune 30, 2010
If you believe that you have a right to fall in love and get married to whomever you wish, you are mostly correct, but only because the Supreme Court intervened on the side of the America people, when it ruled in Loving v. Virginia that interracial couples could marry.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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Leahy discusses the Supreme Court's intervention in marriage rights for interracial couples.

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