DADT Conflict Explained: Why Obama Administration Lawyers Fight For DADT

Dan82 · Oct 21, 2010

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/21/dadt-conflict-explained-w_n_771035.html

President Barack Obama opposes the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military, so why are Obama administration lawyers in court fighting to save it?

The answer is one that perhaps only a lawyer could love: There is a long tradition that the Justice Department defends laws adopted by Congress and signed by a president, regardless of whether the president in office likes them.

This practice cuts across party lines. And it has caused serious heartburn for more than one attorney general.

The tradition flows directly from the president's constitutional duty to take care that the laws are faithfully executed, says Paul Clement, who served four years in President George W. Bush's administration as solicitor general, the executive branch's top lawyer at the Supreme Court...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/21/dadt-conflict-explained-w_n_771035.html
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Revan · Oct 21, 2010

Doesn't mean it's any less stupid >_> Clinton didn't even like the DADT

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