{"id":8093,"date":"2010-11-15T00:30:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T05:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=8093"},"modified":"2010-11-15T00:34:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T05:34:59","slug":"supreme-court-deals-dadt-repeal-death-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/15\/supreme-court-deals-dadt-repeal-death-blow\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Deals DADT Repeal Death Blow?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite President Obama’s continuing assurances about the pending repeal of the policy known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” there are already murmurings the repeal rider to the Defense Authorization Act is effectively dead.\u00a0 Now, the Supreme Court may have put another nail in the coffin of repeal, and it wasn’t their recent decision to uphold the appellate court’s stay<\/a>, which\u00a0allows DADT to be enforced<\/a> while the trial continues.<\/p>\n

It was Justice Kagan’s non-participation in the ruling:\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Justice Kagan took no part in the consideration or decision of this application.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Speculation is\u00a0Kagan may have decided to recuse herself due to her\u00a0participation as Solicitor General with the current administration’s\u00a0ongoing DADT cases.<\/p>\n

For those that like to assign ideological positions to the Supreme Court justices, Kagan’s potential<\/em> recusal from a SCOTUS appeal could make repeal proponents’ jobs more difficult<\/a>.\u00a0 From the speculated 4-4 tie<\/a>, with Kennedy as the deciding vote, the count now becomes 4-3 on the side of keeping the policy.\u00a0 At best, Kennedy could cause a tie, which would mean the lower court’s ruling stands.<\/p>\n

Based on those rough (and weak) statistics, the Plaintiff Log Cabin Republicans suing to repeal DADT must<\/em> win at the 9th Circuit, where the case now stands.\u00a0 If they don’t, on a “good” day they’d lose to a tie.\u00a0 On a bad day, they’d lose outright.\u00a0 If they win at the 9th Circuit, they’re back to relying on Kennedy to be the swing vote — they’d win with a tie, or lose with a minority.<\/p>\n

Of course, the LCR may have another path if they win at the 9th Circuit.\u00a0 If the Obama administration chooses not to appeal, the ruling would stand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite President Obama’s continuing assurances about the pending repeal of the policy known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” there are already murmurings the repeal rider to the Defense Authorization Act is effectively dead.\u00a0 Now, the Supreme Court may have put another nail in the coffin of repeal, and it wasn’t their recent decision to uphold the appellate court’s stay, which\u00a0allows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[219,1153,1104,43,457],"class_list":["post-8093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-dadt","tag-kagan","tag-log-cabin-republicans","tag-obama","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}