Posted by Dale Carpenter: Reversing DADT is "urgent" and "essential to our national security" because the policy "weakens" our military, expels "patriotic Americans" with "critical language skills," and wastes years of training -- all in "a time of war": http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_06_28-2009_07_04.shtml#1246336923
That's what President Obama has concluded. Here's the [1]transcript of the president's remarks at the White House today. To deal with this grave and urgent threat to national security, the Commander-in-Chief announced that he will: (1) Suspend enforcement of DADT in its entirety for the duration of the war, claiming ample constitutional and statutory authority. (2) Issue an immediate stop-loss order barring DADT expulsions for certain classes of "mission-critical" specialists. (3) Order the Defense Department to halt DADT investigations and other inquiries into soldiers' sexual orientation. (4) Demand that Congress act now to repeal DADT. (5) Ask that a plan be developped on an unspecified time schedule for the repeal of DADT at some indefinite point in the future. (Pick one.) References 1. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/06/obama-gay-pride-remarks-lgbt.html _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [email protected] http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
