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Law Dork is Chris Geidner's blog. I am the senior political and legal reporter at BuzzFeed. [Here's my bio.] This blog is inactive, but you should follow me on Twitter and Tumblr.
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- GOP Senate candidate’s family slams his anti-gay beliefs | The Ingram Report on Ohio House Passes LGBT Non-Discrimination Bill
- Better Know An Anti-LGBT Senate Candidate: State Treasurer Josh Mandel (R-OH) | News 47News 47 on Ohio House Passes LGBT Non-Discrimination Bill
- 17 year old kid shot dead by Neighborhood Watch "Captain" - Page 293 - INGunOwners on Hate Crimes Act Makes Conference Report, Death Penalty Gone
- Cecil Cornejo on Obama's DOJ Did Not Have To Go This Far
- Tony on Justice Thomas on ‘Proposition 8-related retaliation’
- Transport marfa international in Insula Juan de Nova sau Romania, in orasul Baraolt. Transport T.I.R. cu autoutilitare sau camioane Renault Premium. Transport marfa pe Drumul European E87 (Clasa A) ori trasport pe Drumul National DN66A:Petrosani - Lupeni on Six Months . . . and Six Years
- wess on The Brand That Started a Weekend Boil
- Jeff on Nick Gets Married
- DOMA Is 13 Years Old, ENDA Still Not Law
- Hate Crimes, Matthew Shepard and What Happened Today
- DOJ Reply Brief in Smelt Filed
- Sunstein Confirmed, Some Progressives Still Skeptical
- House Hears About Don't Ask, Don't Tell - and from Rep. Gohmert
- Where's Dawn Johnsen?
- Ohio House Passes LGBT Non-Discrimination Bill
- Obama Nominates Chai Feldblum, LGBT/Equality Scholar, to EEOC Post
- Judge Walker: Prop 8 Challenge to Continue to Trial
- Judge Denies LGBT Orgs, Grants San Fran Request to Join Prop 8 Challenge
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DADT Archive
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McCain, Maddow (and Eleveld) and Me
So, I can always come home to Law Dork. Here is the surreal: Rachel Maddow noting that Kerry Eleveld and I... -
A Personal Rebuke to Ike Skelton
A letter was emailed late last night to Get Equal, sent from Baghdad by a gay, Missouri soldier currently on... -
Presidential Q-and-A
Although I did not get to ask a question at today’s White House East Room event in which President Obama... -
Police at Lafayette Park: ‘Park’s Closed, Everyone Back Up!’
Today’s Get Equal protest in front of the White House featured aggressive park police, announcing that not only was Pennsylvania... -
The Hecklers’ Veto
Tonight, people associated with GetEqual directly heckled the sitting President, who is generally supportive of LGBT equality but is not... -
The Politics of Barney
Following up on Thursday’s news, I look at “The Politics of Repeal” at Metro Weekly: Calling the changes to the ”Don’t... -
Live . . . From the Pentagon
This morning, I attended the Pentagon briefing on the new separation policies for “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” My first news... -
Interviewing Murphy
My exclusive interview at Metro Weekly with Rep. Patrick Murphy — “Murphy’s Law?” — has some good stuff. I think... -
One Day, Three Pictures (and Three Stories)
As I’ve said elsewhere, I’m still thinking about today. But, I really want to share these three pictures that I... -
In the De-Bunker
Media Matters got the gays to play nicely today. Kudos to them. My report, “Debunking the ‘Myths’ of DADT“: In an...