Dan Choi Won't Vote For Obama After Administration's 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Actions (VIDEO)
Friday, October 22, 2010
Before the decision last week (which Obama could have not appealed, just let DADT d!e), I wrote that Obama can issue an executive order directing the Secretary of Defense to suspend homosexual conduct discharges. As Commander-in-Chief in a time of war, as a matter of national security, he can do basically anything he wants.
Or Obama can end DADT with an executive order (A group of experts in military law concluded Obama can end DADT with the stroke of a pen):
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Congress can continue to work on ending it through legislation, while individuals and groups go about ending it through the courts (the Log Cabin Republicans lawsuit has taken 6 years to get to last week's decision in the federal court; it's nowhere near over).
There's no reason all can't happen simultaneously, and should.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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