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Published October 25, 2014

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Attorney General Eric Holder said Saturday the U.S. government is recognizing same-sex marriages in six additional states, which will make those spouses eligible for federal benefits.

The announcement follows gay marriages recently becoming legal in those states: Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, North Carolina, West Virginia and Wyoming.

It also follows the Supreme Court saying earlier this month that it will not hear appeals from five states trying to keep in place their marriage bans.

Last week, Holder made the same announcement for Colorado, Indiana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin, which means the federal government now recognizes gay marriage in 32 states and the District of Columbia.

Couples married in these states will qualify for a range of federal benefits, including Social Security and veterans' benefits.

"With each new state where same-sex marriages are legally recognized, our nation moves closer to achieving full equality for all Americans," Holder said.

He also said the government is working "as quickly as possible" to make sure same-sex married couples in these states receive the "fullest array of benefits" that federal law allows.

The Justice Department also has determined that it can legally recognize gay marriages performed this summer in Indiana and Wisconsin after federal courts declared marriage bans in the states unconstitutional.

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Holder: US acknowledges gay marriage in six more states, total now 33 including DC

WASHINGTON: The US government announced on Saturday (Oct 25) it would recognise same sex marriages in six more states, following an earlier Supreme Court decision not to take up the debate.

The announcement from Attorney General Eric Holder means gay and lesbian married couples in those states will have the same legal rights and federal benefits as heterosexual couples.

The latest decision covers Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, North Carolina, West Virginia, and Wyoming, and comes on the heels of a similar decision last week that extended federal recognition to seven states.

Holder's announcement "brings the total number of states where same sex couples are recognised by the federal government to 32, plus the District of Columbia," the Justice Department said.

"With each new state where same sex marriages are legally recognized, our nation moves closer to achieving of full equality for all Americans," Holder said. "We are acting as quickly as possible with agencies throughout the government to ensure that same sex married couples in these states receive the fullest array of benefits allowable under federal law."

The statement said Holder had also determined the government would legally recognise same sex marriages in two states, Indiana and Wisconsin, conducted in June. Court battles over gay marriage bans in those states are ongoing.

Earlier this month, the US Supreme Court snubbed appeals from several states where state-level bans on gay marriage had been deemed unconstitutional. Marriages in those states had been on hold pending the court's decision on whether to hear the cases. The ruling means that same sex couples in the five states can now have their unions recognized.

The number of states legalising gay unions is expected to increase.

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Documents obtained from a government watchdog on the Fast and Furious debacle reveal the feds have gone to such lengths to maintain privacy on the gun-running program that even Attorney General Eric Holders wife has been granted executive privilege status.

Judicial Watch found that email correspondence between Mr. Holder and his wife, Sharon, and between Mr. Holder and his mother, are being withheld under an extraordinary claim of executive privilege as well as a dubious claim of deliberative process privilege under the Freedom of Information Act, Newsmax reported.

There are at least 20 emails, other communications, but principally emails between Holder and his spouse, Sharon Malone a medical doctor here in [Washington] D.C., and between Holder and his mother, who is now deceased but at the time a couple years back, she was still alive, Chris Farrell, the director of research and investigations at Judicial Watch, said during an interview on Newsmax TV.

Its not clear what the emails have to do with Fast and Furious, the federal gun-running scandal that left left U.S. border patrol agent Brian Terry dead. But the fact theyve been given executive privilege status is curious and suspicious, Mr. Farrell said.

I cant imaging what Dr. Malone or his mother has anything to do with Fast and Furious, Mr. Farrell said, Newsmax reported. Somebody I know has opined that they think that theyre maybe cover emails for people in the White House. Their claim is executive privilege. They need to document or explain that. They just cant make a blanket statement.

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