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...
Today, Servicemembers United put out a news release to several hundred people, alerting LGBT and other progressive bloggers and other media to the fact that...
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...
I’m going to try and avoid going too deep into the woods tonight — because it’s late and because I’m tired — but I have...
In a move expected by most legal observers, the U.S. Department of Justice this afternoon filed notices...
U.S. District Court Judge Virginia A. Phillips has suspended enforcement of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”...
Mara Keisling, the executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, had a key legislative priority for the 111th
The fight for gay equality at home and on the battlefield won encouraging court victories last week. In a case brought by ACLU of Washington...
COOPER: I’m not defending the delay. I’m not defending the bigoted staffer. It sounds liket they’re wanting to get to the bottom of it. And...
Photo: Former Air Force Major Margaret Witt, Washington National Guard Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer (Ret.) and Air Force Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach in March 2010 at...
Progressive members of the U.S. House of Representatives today took a stand in the ongoing court case challenging the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy....