BREAKING: Federal judge orders Obama admin. to stop DADT discharges immediately. Will Obama comply, or side with the bigots?
Posted by John Aravosis (DC) at 10/12/2010 02:49:00 PM
The President, who is himself a constitutional scholar, has been handed the golden opportunity to end DADT once and for all. A federal judge has now ruled that the gay ban is unconstitutional, and he has ordered the federal government to stop the discharges immediately. The President now has the power – given to him by a federal judge – to do the right thing, to do what he promised, to side with the civil rights community. All he has to do is not appeal, and DADT is over.
It’s a no-brainer. Even for this administration that is loathe to do anything bold, loathe to be seen as responsible for anything even slightly “controversial.” Well, now they have their out. It’s the judge’s fault. President Obama can simply choose not to appeal the case, to respect the judge’s decision, and DADT is over. It’s history.
Or the President can direct his Department of Justice to oppose the judge’s order, to appeal the case, and to defend DADT – to defend bigotry, to go down in history on the same side as those who chose to defend discrimination against another class of Americans earlier in the 20th century. It’s no longer up to Congress, it’s not longer “out of the President’s hands.” It’s in Barack Obama’s hands. Will America’s first African-American president side with the bigots, or will he side with civil rights. Will he act boldly, or will he choose the way of the coward?
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Judge tells Government pound sand. LOL
From Politico
Judge bans ‘don’t ask’ policy worldwide
From the Advocate here is the full text:
appeals this to the 9th Circuit, the 9th Circuit affirms the decsion, and the Supreme Court 5-4 rules to keep DADT in place (Scalia, Alito, Robert, Thomas and Kennedy).
Where the fork is the Obama ball point, indelible Executive Order pen or pencil? He could issue an executive order saying the same thing as the injunction and end all of the bs. Will he do it? I doubt it. I certainly didn’t vote for this. If riding in the caboose is called leadership, this administration excels. If leadership is about getting out front on stuff, this gets a D+.