Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring is slated to announce later today that the state government will join the two same-sex couples asking a federal court to strike down the state's ban on same-sex matrimony as unconstitutional, The Washington Post reports. The action "is a result of November elections in which Democrats swept the state's top offices," The Post reports. Herring will note that Virginia has been on the wrong side of landmark legal issues like school desegregation and interracial marriage, and this is an opportunity to be on the right side what would be a civil-rights milestone, The Post further reports.
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