Tuesday, June 9, 2009

SCOTUS Denies Challenge to Gays-in-Military Law

On Monday the Supreme Court denied a petition requesting review of a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, which had upheld as constitutional the 1993 law regarding homosexuals in the military. This decision is good news, but the case reveals a basic contradiction in the position of the Obama administration with regard to the 1993 law. More...