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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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Obama Archive
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On a Television Near You
They let me on the Tee Vee … On Wednesday, Feb. 23, I appeared in the lead segment on Capital Insider,... -
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... -
The Hecklers’ Veto
Tonight, people associated with GetEqual directly heckled the sitting President, who is generally supportive of LGBT equality but is not... -
The Dawn at Stevens’ Sunset?
Today was a day for celebrating the service of Justice John Paul Stevens. Today was a day for considering the impact... -
Obama and Stevens United . . . Against Citizens United
One of the ten-ton elephants or bombshells or other colorful journalistic euphemisms awaiting us in the SCOTUS vacancy weeks ahead... -
Oh, What a Glee-ful Morning
It was a busy morning at the White House, as thousands of families descended on the South Lawn for the... -
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... -
Where’s Dawn Johnsen?
[My earlier post regarding the EEOC and NLRB appointments, and Obama's use of recess appointments more generally, can be found... -
Feldblum, Others to the EEOC in Series of Recess Appointments
Chai Feldblum was one of 15 Obama nominees who today were given recess appointments (White House release) — including several... -
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...