Yahoo! For legal geeks suffering a void in live tweeting now that the Prop 8 trial has wrapped, some good news: Log Cabin Republicans vs. the United States of America is a go. Despite the Justice Department’s last ditch effort to halt the trial because, supposedly, Congress is going to repeal the law, California’s U.S. District Court Judge Virginia A. Phillips has agreed to hear the case. It begins July 13. Quick, someone in Gay Inc. come up with a reason this lawsuit shouldn’t move forward.
Cam
Be interesting if the Supremes actually struck it down while Congress was still arguing about what color the carpet should be in the room where they were going to argue over whether or not all the hurdles had been met to begin their 2 month review process etc…
Michael @ LeonardMatlovich.com
[img]http://leonardmatlovich.com/images/247_1Obama_Stonewall_Ad.jpg[/img]
RECAP for those just now reading about this case.
The ruling is the latest refusal of the court to submit to the ruthless efforts of the ODOJ over the last year, fighting fang and nail to kill it in brief after brief after brief [following ….wait for it…..Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s success a year ago this month in killing the constitutional challenge by Jim Pietrangelo, arrested twice this year at the White House with Dan Choi].
Using a similar tactic the Obama Mafia used in 1996 to get him elected to his first office in Chicago….invalidate the voting petition signatures of his challengers for the nomination…..the ODOJ tried to remove Servicemembers United cofounder Alex Nicholson, who was discharged under DADT, as a co-plaintiff claiming he was not a real member of LCR when the suit started.
They also tried to have co-plaintiff “John Doe” disqualified, asserting that since he was still IN the military, serving in Iraq, he WASN’T BEING HURT BY DADT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In February, they tried to have the case postponed alleging that the court should sit by while political discussion about repealing DADT continued, respinning that argument in May which resulted in the court’s decision above.
In March, they quoted at length the 1993 homophobic opinions of Colin Powell about the justification for DADT even though Powell himself said in the weeks before their brief that he believed times had changed and it was reasonable to consider getting rid of DADT.
In April, in a mindboggling twist of contradiction of saying one thing and doing another that has become the hallmark of this administration, the ODOJ said in writing that the President didn’t know what he was talking about in his remarks to LGBTs at the White House in June of 2009:
As noted at the time by Queerty, when asked to admit that, as the President said, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell “does not contribute to our national security,” the government’s response was “Deny.” When asked to admit that, as the President said, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell “weakens our national security,” the government’s response was “Deny.” And, when asked to admit that, as the President said, that discharging service members pursuant to Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell “weakens our national security,” the government’s response was “Deny.”
By both defending unconstitutional laws THEY DON’T HAVE TO[despite the disingenous ravings of ObamaZombies like the self-described “LawDork”] and doing it in devious ways better suited to Chicago dirty politics than the pursuit of justice, the ODOJ has proven itself the enemy of many of the people who put them in power.
And don’t get me started on their heinous defense …. again, led by Elena Kagan …. of Bush’es so-called “Patriot Act.”