Miss thing is all good. As long as he doesn’t tell folks he’s gay when called to serve jury duty at a gay related trial. We all remember the craziness about Judge Vaughn Walker being called into question for his ability to make a fair ruling on Prop 8 by nutty conservatives. Well [...]
From Metro Weekly: In a brief filing in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, the U.S. Department of Justice filed the formal documents to announce that it plans to appeal the trial judge’s order in Witt v. U.S. Department of the Air Force. On Sept. 24, U.S. District Court Ronald Leighton [...]
The Federal Government asked the US Supreme Court to back the Ninth Circuit panel ruling that permits Don’t Ask Don’t Tell to continue temporarily, according to CNN. The acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Kumar Katyal argued that the Supreme Court should reject a request by the Log Cabin Republicans to reinstate a federal judge’s injunction [...]
A 9th Circuit judge challenged the strength of the Department Of Justice’s (DOJ) lawsuit against against the state of Arizona’s anti-immigration law. According to the Washington Post, Judge John T. Noonan Jr. hammered DOJ lawyers with questions focusing on the premise of the DOJ’s complaint against Arizona that says the state’s anti-immigration law is pre-empted [...]
From New York Times: A federal appeals court on Wednesday temporarily stalled the landmark court decision allowing openly gay recruits to be accepted into the military. In response to an emergency request from the government, a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, issued a one-page order late [...]
From SCOTUS blog: The Obama Administration early Wednesday asked the Ninth Circuit Court to act immediately to postpone a federal judge’s ruling that ordered the Pentagon to stop enforcing the “don’t ask/don’t tell” policy on gays in the military. The stay application forecast dire consequences.
We knew there was gonna be a touch of fallout from our post Minus Gay Inc. White Privilege Delusions: Is Obama Wrong To Appeal DOMA and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell? We just didn’t realize how much. For starters, strangely Pam Spaulding of Pam’s House Blend decided that it was some personal attack aimed specifically at [...]
