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A bill was introduced Wednesday to the US Senate that would allow gay soldiers to serve openly in the US military. Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) introduced the Military Readiness Enhancement Act of 2010 ,...

Aubrey Sarvis : "The opposition by more than 100 retired flag officers to the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) law is another indication of growing nationwide support to replace DADT with a nondiscrimination law that...

Thomas Cook et al. v. Donald H. Rumsfeld et al., United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, Judge George A. O'Toole Jr., April 24, 2006 [dismissing a suit filed in 2004 by twelve members of the US armed...

JURIST Guest Columnist Brian J. Foley of Florida Coastal School of Law says that the greatest threat posed by President Bush's domestic surveillance program is not to the privacy of ordinary Americans but rather to the independence of potential political...

JURIST Guest Columnist Brian Foley of Florida Coastal School of Law says that while senators are likely to query Judge Samuel Alito this week about his views on executive power, they themselves have dangerously indulged it without setting clear limitations,...

Australian attorney general Philip Ruddock has asked the US to expedite proceedings against Australian detainee David Hicks , the only Australian still held at Guantanamo Bay. Hicks was captured in Afghanistan in...

Financial Costs and Loss of Critical Skills Due to DOD's Homosexual Conduct Policy Cannot be Completely Estimated, Government Accountability Office , February 23, 2005 [report indicating that the policy has hurt recruiting and retention as the war in Iraq has...

Uniform Discrimination: The "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Policy of the US Military, Human Rights Watch, January 23, 2003 [concluding that the US military policy of discharging gay and lesbian service members who reveal their sexual orientation violates human rights and...