Appellate Court Reinstates Injunction Against "Don't Ask Don't Tell"
This is a good thing, since it appears that the Obama, in another example of moral cowardice, is slow walking this process. What I like is the fact that they use the Obama DoJ's words against them:
The government must stop enforcing the law that prohibits openly gay men, lesbians and bisexuals from serving in the military, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday.The fact that the most conflicted Republicans in the nation are more proactive in pushing basic civil rights than the Obama administration.
A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a two-page order against the policy known as “don’t ask, don’t tell” in a case brought by the group Log Cabin Republicans.
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Judges Alex Kozinski, Kim McLane Wardlaw and Richard A. Paez stated in their order that “circumstances and balance of hardships had changed” since their initial ruling: the Obama administration had informed the court that repeal of the policy was “well under way,” and in a filing in another case on July 1, the Department of Justice took the position that discrimination based on sexual orientation should be subjected to tough scrutiny. The government, the judges wrote, “can no longer satisfy the demanding standard for issuance of a stay.”
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