Lackadaisical2 wrote:Thank God the GOP legally challenged DADT, since the dems apparently couldn't do it. (/silly partisanship)
Log Cabin Republicans is not "the GOP."
Mainstream LGBT rights organizations, for good reason, are hesitant about challenges to laws in the federal courts. The main one they've done since Lawrence v. Texas is the DOMA challenge, Gill v. Office of Personnel Management. It doesn't help that Congress is literally on the verge of repealing DADT (assuming Harry Reid decides to actually bring it to a vote sooner or later.)
But this will go to the next court up, I'd think. Strange that the Justice department defended it, even though Obama seems to want to get rid of it.
The Justice Department generally defends federal law.