All posts by Chris Geidner
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Boehner Would Be “Very Surprised” If House Doesn’t Mount DOMA Defense
In an interview with Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) sounded very much like a man planning on spearheading a defense...
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News Analysis: DOJ Avoids DADT Constitutionality Question, Argues DADT Repeal Act Changed LCR Case
As suggested this afternoon by White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, the Department of Justice has filed its brief defending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in...
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DOJ Urges Continued Delay of LCR DADT Appeal, But Notes That Courts Have Found DADT To Be Constitutional
As suggested this afternoon by...
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White House Press Secretary Suggests DADT Court Defense Will Continue
Notwithstanding the government’s decision to stop defending Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act against constitutional challenges, White House press secretary Jay Carney suggested...
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The Fallout: DOJ Drops First Circuit DOMA Defense; Immigration and DADT Questions Raised
The fallout has been rapid and expansive from the Feb. 23 letter from Attorney General Eric Holder to House Speaker John Boehner regarding the government’s...
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The Next Test: Log Cabin Republicans v. United States
On Wednesday, Feb. 23, Attorney General Eric Holder declared in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) that “the President and I have concluded...
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Prop 8 Lawsuit Lawyers Ask Ninth Circuit to Lift Stay and Allow California Same-Sex Marriages
Moments after the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it would no longer be defending challenges to Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act,...
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BREAKING: DOJ Will No Longer Defend Section 3 of DOMA
The Department of Justice has made a decision that heightened scrutiny applies to sexual orientation...
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Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel Elected Chicago Mayor
Rahm Emanuel, the former head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee who served as President Barack Obama’s first White House chief of staff, was elected...
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News Analysis: The Changed Landscape, and the New Focus
Although the changed political winds in Washington, D.C., spell an end to any likely chance of the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act or...
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Rosapepe Puts Maryland Marriage Bill Over the Top
Following quickly on the heels of today’s historic committee vote sending Maryland’s marriage equality bill to the floor of the full Senate, the final necessary...
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Obama Talks Education Bill With Senators, Anti-Bullying Measures Not Discussed
Today, President Barack Obama had a meeting to discuss the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act with a bipartisan group of Senate leaders...
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U.S. Diplomat on Uganda’s Bahati: “His homophobia … is blinding and incurable.”
In new U.S. diplomatic cables provided by WikiLeaks, The Guardian today published cables detailing the United States diplomacy relating to Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill. [UPDATE: As...
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California High Court Takes Prop 8 Standing Question
The California Supreme Court granted the request to take the certified question, as requested by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in...
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L.A. Times: California High Court to Make Prop 8 Case Decision Today
The Los Angeles Times reports: The California Supreme Court will decide Wednesday whether to plunge back into the legal battle over same-sex marriage. The state...
