The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" id="mwAY0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Supreme Court of the United States">U.S. Supreme Court</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Windsor" id="mwAY4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States v. Windsor">ruled, 5–4</a>, that Section 3 of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_Marriage_Act" id="mwAY8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Defense of Marriage Act">Defense of Marriage Act</a> is unconstitutional and in violation of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" id="mwAZA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution">Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution</a>.<sup about="#mwt41" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-6"}}' id="cite_ref-6" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./June_26#cite_note-6" id="mwAZE" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 6;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAZI">[6]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-6"><cite about="#mwt37" class="citation web cs1" id="CITEREFProducer2013">Producer, By Bill Mears, CNN Supreme Court (26 June 2013). <a class="external text" href="https://www.cnn.com/2013/06/26/politics/scotus-same-sex-doma/index.html" id="mwB0Y" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Supreme Court strikes down provision on same-sex marriage benefits - CNNPolitics"</a>. <i id="mwB0c">CNN</i><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwB0g">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwB0k">2021-07-23</span></span>.</cite><span about="#mwt37" class="Z3988" id="mwB0o" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=CNN&amp;rft.atitle=Supreme+Court+strikes+down+provision+on+same-sex+marriage+benefits+-+CNNPolitics&amp;rft.date=2013-06-26&amp;rft.aulast=Producer&amp;rft.aufirst=By+Bill+Mears%2C+CNN+Supreme+Court&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2013%2F06%2F26%2Fpolitics%2Fscotus-same-sex-doma%2Findex.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJune+26"></span><span about="#mwt37" id="mwB0s"> </span><span about="#mwt37" class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment" id="mwB0w"><code class="cs1-code" id="mwB00">{{<a href="./Template:Cite_web" id="mwB04" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Template:Cite web">cite web</a>}}</code>: </span><span about="#mwt37" class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment" id="mwB08"><code class="cs1-code" id="mwB1A"><span id="mwB1E" typeof="mw:Entity">|</span>first=</code> has generic name (<a href="./Help:CS1_errors#generic_name" id="mwB1I" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Help:CS1 errors">help</a>)</span><span about="#mwt37" class="cs1-maint citation-comment" id="mwB1M">CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (<a href="./Category:CS1_maint:_multiple_names:_authors_list" id="mwB1Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Category:CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list">link</a>)</span><link about="#mwt37" href="./Category:CS1_errors:_generic_name" id="mwB1U" rel="mw:PageProp/Category"/><link about="#mwt37" href="./Category:CS1_maint:_multiple_names:_authors_list" id="mwB1Y" rel="mw:PageProp/Category"/></span>