DADT Update: Federal Judge Refuses To Lift Stay

Via Joe.My.God comes the above excerpt from U.S. District Court Judge Virgina Phillips ruling today in Log Cabin Republicans v. United States that she is refusing to issue an emergency stay of the injunction preventing the United States from enforcing its "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy she issued last week, on Tuesday October 12th.

The Department of Justice has appealed her ruling, and is expected to appeal her injunction, to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. I support the appeal of the ruling, but not of the injunction. A single federal judge should not be making public policy for the entire federal government. I suspect the government will lose on appeal as well. I would NOT support an appeal to the United States Supreme Court at that time.

Meanwhile, since DADT is no longer in effect right now and the Pentagon has told recruiters they can accept  LGBT recruits, Dan Choi has apparently successfully reenlisted in the military, this time the Marines.