LAW DORK ON EQUALITY AND THE RULE OF LAW: “Yet again, the Department of Justice filed a brief (pdf) in a federal trial court that defends a law in place since the 1990s that imposes a restriction on lesbian, gay and bisexual people but has previously been upheld by federal courts. On Monday, it was a brief in defense of the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy; this past year, it was a brief defending the Defense of Marriage Act. That this was done by the Obama administration is seen by some in the LGBT community as an abhorrent act. I disagree.”