How Attorney Roberta Kaplan Beat DOMA

The Leonard Lopate Show | Oct 2, 2015

Roberta Kaplan was the attorney who argued the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) case in front of the Supreme Court and went on to win it, bringing marriage equality to all fifty states. In Then Comes Marriage: United States V. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA, Kaplan gives a behind-the-scenes look into that influential case and what personally drove her to take it on in the first place. 

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