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The upcoming change of administration raises real concerns about LGBT rights, and particularly about the right to same-sex marriage (SSM). Marriage is fundamentally controlled by state law, but two important Supreme Court decisions have enshrined the rights of same-sex married couples in all states, and in federal law.

Ever since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade a few weeks ago, questions have arisen about many other rights that have been established by the Supreme Court over the past fifty years, because of legal reasoning that may be similar to the principles that were overturned in this new decision.