When will the government stop discriminating against the children of gay couples?

While most of us would like to think the government would change its constitutionally questionable policy, that is probably not its next move.

Excerpt - Last week, a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel issued a very short opinion in favor of the Dvash-Banks family. That’s great news! For now. The poor family has been put through the ringer by the government after a customs officer informed the new parents that only one of their infant twin boys would be recognized as a United States citizen. Since that time, the parents — along with the nonprofit firm Immigration Equality, and the very profitable firm Sullivan & Cromwell, as pro bono counsel — have been fighting for their other twin son to also be recognized as a U.S. citizen.

Ellen Trachman is the Managing Attorney of Trachman Law Center, LLC, and a regular contributor to the ‘Above the Law’ platform.