From Reuters: A federal judge formally refused on Tuesday to let the Pentagon reinstate its ban on openly gay men and women in the U.S. military while it appeals her decision declaring its “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy unconstitutional. A day after tentatively siding against the Obama administration, U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips issued a [...]
We found ourselves at an interesting crossroads last week when we heard that the Department Of Justice (DOJ) was appealing both DOMA and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Like, is this cat serious? Is he really doing this, after all the fighting we’ve done on his behalf? Is he really betraying us like this? Of course [...]
By The Rachel Maddow Show Thu Oct 14, 2010 3:50 PM EDT The Justice Department has begun the process of appealing the ruling that Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is unconstitutional. NBC’s Pete Williams reports that Obama administration lawyers have asked for a stay of the permanent injunction. “The Government intends to appeal the Court’s decision. [...]
From SDGLN.com: “May you live in interesting times” is as much a curse as a warning. Turbulence, upheaval and revolution – these lead to difficult lives, implies the supposedly Chinese curse. But they are also the defining characteristics of great social change. There are protests and arrests, laws passed and challenged, pickets and bullhorns, hate [...]
California’s governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the bill proposing Civil Marriage Religious Freedom Act by state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) that would allowed clergy to refuse to perform same-sex marriages if they chose to do so without penalty or legal ramifications. The bill was a pet project of Leno’s and backed by Equality California. Similar [...]
Republicans in the state Assembly have penned a letter urging Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to appeal the recent ruling overturning California’s ban on gay marriage, says the Sacramento Bee newspaper. The 27 Republican legislators who signed a letter to Gov. Schwarzenegger argued that by staying out of the case, Schwarzenegger and Brown will set a precedent that officials “may [...]
This could be some hardcore poetic justice about to unfold: In March of 1997, the Supreme Court set aside a Federal appeals court’s decision that Arizona could not require state employees to speak only English on the job,(Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona, No. 95-974) ordering a state employee’s challenge to Arizona’s English-only constitutional amendment [...]
