To care about politics is to be perpetually disillusioned. In the normal course of life, this isn't an indictment. We live in a democracy made...
For further developments on this story, check Metro Weekly's Poliglot blog.As the breadth of U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Phillips's Oct. 12 order halting all...
After 5 p.m. Pacific Time today, U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Phillips denied the Department of Justice’s request for a stay pending the government’s appeal...
In an order entered by the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday, the court set the schedule for the appeal of the Log...
In a sign of the wide-reaching impact of U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Phillips’s injunction halting enforcment of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy,...
From The Advocate‘s Andrew Harmon, who was at today’s hearing: U.S. district judge Virginia A. Phillips issued a tentative ruling Monday rejecting the government’s request...
At 2:30 p.m. PT Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Phillips will hold a hearing to determine whether the government is correct that the “Don’t...
This afternoon in California, attorneys representing Log Cabin Republicans filed a brief in opposition to the U.S. government’s request for a stay of U.S. District...
Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Clifford Stanley issued a memorandum today, obtained by Metro Weekly, to the secretaries of the service branches detailing...
Former Acting Solicitor General and Duke Law professor Walter Dellinger, who served in the latter part of the Clinton administration, was on The Rachel Maddow...
The U.S. Department of Justice filed its request seeking a stay of U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Phillips’s ruling in Log Cabin Republicans v. United...
This afternoon, two days after U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Phillips...
Early Wednesday morning, I wrote, “What Is DOJ Thinking?“ Today, the bigger question appears to be, “What is DOD thinking?” As reported in The New...
For more than 24 hours, the United States has been constrained from enforcing the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Although CNN is reporting that...
U.S. District Court Judge Virginia A. Phillips has suspended enforcement of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”...