All posts by Chris Geidner
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Obama Announces Bin Laden Dead; Crowd Gathers Outside White House
[Photo, above: Luke Gruenhagen (second from left), Paul Organ (center), Jessica Gbegnom (second from right) stand on the raised cement barrier at the White House...
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GOProud’s “Number One Goal” Is Obama’s Defeat
GOProud is ready for the upcoming election, and ready to take on the president. Jimmy LaSalvia announced the launch of the group’s election season plans...
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White House: DADT Repeal “Implementation Will Happen Whomever Serves as Secretary of Defense”
The White House responded this evening to questions about if and how the planned June 30 resignation date of Defense Secretary Robert Gates would impact...
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Federal Judge Applies Fourteenth Amendment to Sexual Orientation Job Discrimination Claim
Here’s the report from Harlan Spector at The Plain Dealer: CLEVELAND, Ohio — A federal judge ruled Monday that a gay Cuyahoga County worker can...
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Obama to Nominate Panetta as Defense Secretary, Shakeup Could Impact DADT-Repeal Timeline
President Barack Obama plans to nominate Leon Panetta, currently serving as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, to replace Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a...
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White House Briefing: Holder, Clement and DOMA
From this morning’s off-camera press gaggle with White House press secretary Jay Carney: QUESTION: A question on the situation regarding the Defense of Marriage...
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News Analysis: What Actually Happened With King & Spalding?
The Human Rights Campaign has pushed the story that its public protestations and threatened in-person protests led to the decision by Atlanta-based King & Spalding...
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King and Spalding Files Motion to Withdraw From DOMA Defense, Prompting Clement’s Resignation
Today, the law firm of King & Spalding announced — only 11 days after taking on the representation of the House Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group...
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What Did Obama Mean?
If a picture says a thousand words, what does this video of President Barack Obama responding to an audience member at an event on April...
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News Analysis: When Is a (DOMA Litigation Cost) Cap Not a Cap?
On Monday, April 18, news broke that King & Spalding partner Paul Clement would be the lead outside counsel representing the House’s Bipartisan Legal Advisory...
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Patrick Murphy to Run for Pennsylvania Attorney General
Former Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Pa.), the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal leader who lost his re-election bid to Rep. Mike Fitpatrick (R-Pa.) in 2010, will...
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The King & Spalding DOMA Gag Rule?
King & Spalding employees are barred from advocating for the Respect for Marriage Act — the bill that would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act...
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Looking Into the DOMA Defense Contract
The contract between House General Counsel Kerry Kircher and attorney Paul Clement, on behalf of King & Spalding, to “represent the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group...
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Speaker Boehner’s DOMA Defense Lawyer, Paul Clement, Is Announced — and Faces Questions
Today, the House of Representatives Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group, through Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), announced that it would be intervening in cases challenging the Defense...
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House Leadership Seeks to Intervene in DOMA Case
Without opposition from either the Department of Justice attorneys representing the Obama administration or the lawyers representing Edith Windsor in her challenge to the federal...
