All posts tagged "doj"
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DOJ: Court Should Not Dismiss Karen Golinski’s Health Benefits Claim, Should Instead Find DOMA Unconstitutional
Today, the Department of Justice filed a brief in federal court employee Karen Golinski’s federal court challenge, supporting her lawsuit seeking access to equal health...
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Obama Nominates Out Gay Magistrate Backed by GOP Senators for Texas U.S. Attorney Spot
Robert Lee Pitman, an out gay magistrate judge in the Western District of Texas, was nominated today by President Barack Obama to serve as the...
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House GOP Leadership Defends “Traditional” Marriage From Being “Radically Redefined”
On June 3, the House Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group — the three Republican members — filed a motion to dismiss Karen Golinski’s lawsuit seeking equal...
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House GOP Leadership Defends DOMA at the First Circuit
On Friday, May 20, the Republican members of the House Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group filed a motion to intervene in two cases challenging the constitutionality...
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Report: DOMA Contract Had Not Been OK’ed By King & Spalding Ethics Committee
The Wall Street Journal brought attention to a Fulton County Daily Report article providing additional information about the circumstances of — and problems with —...
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Attorney General Holder Vacates Immigration Decision Based on DOMA
Attorney General Eric Holder today filed a very rare decision, vacating a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals related to the application of Paul...
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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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GOP Rep. Franks Wants To Save Marriage; Dems Say They Do, Too — But In a Very Different Way
Today, the House Judiciary Submcommittee on the Constitution held its scheduled hearing on “Defending Marriage,” featuring testimony from the National Organization for Marriage head Maggie...
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Senators Kerry, Leahy, 10 Others Ask DOJ, DHS to Hold Same-Sex Bi-National Couples’ Immigration Petitions
Following up on the March 31 letter that Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.) sent to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano seeking a stop on deportations of...
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RNC Slams Obama on DADT Repeal, Stopped DOMA Defense, Prop 8 Opposition
[Image, above: A screen capture from the top of the Republican National Committee’s new website, “Hope Isn’t Hiring,” which takes aim at President Obama’s record...
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Immigration Official: “The Hold Is Over”
The “hold” on same-sex married bi-national couples’ green card applications — celebrated by immigration and LGBT advocates — is over, according to the spokesman for...
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DHS Official: Bi-National Immigration Case Abeyances Could End Within A Week
The announcement on Monday, March 28, that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services had...
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Policy Change, At Least Locally, Puts Bi-National Couples’ Immigration Cases On Hold
A growing body of evidence suggests that deportations of foreign partners who are married to a same-sex partner and would otherwise be eligible for a...
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DOJ's New Scrutiny
The Department of Justice Civil Rights Division's report on its ''Investigation of the New Orleans Police Department,'' which was released on March 16, detailed serious...
