Four national groups advocating for recognizing same-sex marriage are teaming up in New Jersey, saying that the state is primed to allow gay couples to wed.
The American Civil Liberties Union says it has filed the first known legal challenge seeking to overturn a state law that effectively bans gay marriage in Pennsylvania.
Judges and lawyers representing same-sex couples are already using Justice Anthony Kennedy's opinion striking down part of a federal anti-gay marriage law in other cases about the right to marry -- despite Kennedy's insistence the ruling was limited.
Sen. President Stephen Sweeney (D) said today that NJ's gay marriage bill would pass if Gov. Chris Christie allowed the Republicans to vote for it, and said that Democrats are currently trying to collect the Republican votes necessary for an override of Christie's earlier veto.