Politics
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Hunter’s Not Giving Up on Stopping DADT Repeal Just Yet
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) — the House’s version of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) during the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal debate — isn’t taking his...
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DOJ Files DOMA Defense in First Circuit Cases
Today, the Department of Justice filed its defense of the Defense of Marriage Act in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in...
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Obama: We must “make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.”
President Barack Obama tonight addressed Arizona — and the nation — at a memorial event held in the wake of the mass-shooting that killed six...
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CREW Seeks Ethics Investigation Following Swearing-In Snafu
Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed papers with the Office of Congressional Ethics seeking an investigation into what it claims are constitutional,...
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Equality Matters Snags SLDN Spokesman
Word came this evening that Equality Matters, the new Media Matters for America venture that boasts prominent LGBT commentator and former Clinton gay liaison Richard...
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LCR: Appeal Should Continue or Stay on DADT Injunction Should Be Lifted
In a filing today before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the Log Cabin Republicans argue that the government’s request to stop...
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U.S. District Judge John Roll, Five Others Shot Dead; Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Others in Critical Condition
At a little before 5 p.m. today, Jan. 8, President Barack Obama addressed the nation regarding today’s shooting of more than a dozen people, including...
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First Week For Murphy Replacement Fitzpatrick Is a Rough One
One story from this first week of the 112th Congress bears special mention at Poliglot. Pennsylvania Republican Mike Fitzpatrick defeated Democrat Patrick Murphy in their...
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McCain, on DADT Repeal Act: “I will do everything I can to make it work.”
From The Hill today: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Thursday that he would work to help implement the repeal of the military’s “Don’t ask, don’t...
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Obama Renominates DuMont, Would Be First Gay Federal Appeals Judge
Today, President Barack Obama sent the name of Edward C. DuMont, a District resident, to the Senate for nomination to be a judge on the...
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Battle of the Brains: Reinhardt and Olson Spar, Nicely, Over Prop 8 Litigation Decisions
Ted Olson, on a conference call today with reporters, defended the litigation decisions made by his team in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the challenge to Proposition...
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Ninth Circuit Sends a Question About Standing to the California Supreme Court
At 11 a.m. Pacific Time today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a series of orders and opinions in the Perry...
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DOJ Seeks Hold on DADT Appeal, LCR Sees Need to Move Forward
One week after President Barack Obama signed the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act into law, the Department of Justice filed a motion in the...
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Feldblum Approved for EEOC, DuMont Judicial Nomination in Question
On the Senate’s last day in session, on Dec. 22, out lesbian Chai Feldblum was confirmed by the Senate for her position as a commissioner...
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The Many Voices of the LGBT World: Celebrating Six Months of Poliglot
Six months ago today, as the hearings for the nomination of then-Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court got under way, my editors and...
