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Adrian Fenty got an important reminder this week from The Hill. The Mayor pledged to release a legal opinion on whether or not DC can legally recognize same-sex marriages from other states under current law. The opinion was written by Attorney General Robert Spagnoletti during the Williams administration. Mayor Williams, unwilling to take the issue on, kept the legal opinion top secret. The Hill reports:

"The memo has remained secret presumably because it says something Congress does not want to hear — that the District would recognize a gay marriage from Massachusetts. Attorneys General from other jurisdictions, such as Rhode Island, have not generated backlash by advising their states to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere. But, as in all things, D.C. is different."

But with Democrats now in control of Congress, at least one city council member, Jim Graham, says it's time to release the memo.