All posts tagged "DOD"
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DOJ Won’t Defend DOMA, Other Laws Preventing Equal Treatment for Servicemembers With Same-Sex Spouses
The Department of Justice sent a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) today stating that the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments would not be...
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SLDN, DOJ Agree to 60-Day Delay in Case Challenging Gay Servicemembers’ Spousal Benefits
Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, the LGBT military legal advocacy group, agreed to delay its challenge to military policies that the organization says discriminate against servicemembers...
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SLDN’s Sarvis to Panetta: “Troubled” New Pentagon Program “Continues … Discrimination”
Today, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network executive director Aubrey Sarvis told Defense Secretary Leon Panetta that his organization is “troubled” that a new program directive released...
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LCR Responds to DOJ: “On-Again, Off-Again Status” of DADT “Plays Havoc” With Servicemembers’ Rights
Responding to the two filings on Thursday evening, July 14, by the Department of Justice in the Log Cabin Republicans v. United States challenge to...
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DOJ Tells Court It “Continues to Defend” DADT, Seeks Reinstatement of Law “By the Close of Business Tomorrow”
The Department of Justice filed a motion in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Ciruit in the Log Cabin Republicans v. United States...
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Moratorium Issued on DADT Discharges; No Decision on Appeal
The Pentagon has stopped all enforcement of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in a memorandum issued to military branch secretaries dated today, following a July 6...
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DADT Discharges for Fiscal Year 2010: 261
Despite the passage of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act in December 2010, numbers released today about discharges under the law in the year...
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Nearly 128 Hours Later …
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...
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Undersecretary of Defense Stanley Issues DADT Case Memo
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...
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Examining the DOJ Request for a Stay; Appeal Notice Filed
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...
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Twenty-Four Hours Without DADT
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...
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BREAKING: DADT IS SUSPENDED
U.S. District Court Judge Virginia A. Phillips has suspended enforcement of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”...
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“Family Readiness” is the New “Military Readiness”
Although news that the Pentagon was going to be surveying the spouses — opposite-sex only — of current members of the military regarding the “Don’t...
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“Absolutely” No Segregation Being Considered, Pentagon Spokesman Says
Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell hit back hard on Monday afternoon against the claim alluded to at Talking Points Memo and circulating in the LGBT blogosphere...
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More From Pentagon’s Morrell
Following up from the Friday evening, July 9, news conference held by Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell, I believe many questions remain about the survey, its...
