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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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- Cecil Cornejo on Obama's DOJ Did Not Have To Go This Far
- Tony on Justice Thomas on ‘Proposition 8-related retaliation’
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- 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
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Ohio Archive
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After GOP ‘Fixes,’ Ohio Gets a Weak Teen Dating-Violence Prevention Law
Today, a story in divided government showed that the only losers were Ohio’s students — particularly LGBT students. In May, the... -
The Underdog and Her Dog: Campaign Strategy or Just Flailing?
I get that Jennifer Brunner, Ohio’s Secretary of State and one of the two Democrats running for the U.S. Senate... -
Ohio’s Issue 2: Subverting Democracy With ‘Democracy’
Issue 2 is a constitutional amendment that the General Assembly abruptly placed on the ballot earlier this year to be... -
The Machinery of Death: What Happened Today in Ohio
Today was a complicated day for Ohio. Specifically, it was a complicated day for those officeholders responsible for implementing and... -
Countering the Lies: An EHEA Update
Several folks have pointed out this Cincinnati Enquirer article from Jon Craig that talks about the “doomed” fate of H.B.... -
Husted Did Not Vote Against DOMA in 2003
I’m not real interested right now in getting in the middle of the whole Garrison-Ohio blogosphere fiasco, but I did... -
Ohioans Don’t Trust the GOP … But At Least ‘We’re Number 37!’
A new Quinnipiac Poll is out (with Ohio Senate numbers), and Ohioans — in our role as, well, basically, representative... -
Dispatch Editor Marrison Misses the Point: There’s No Newspaper Supremacy
Today’s Sunday column from Columbus Dispatch editor Ben Marrison falls flat because of its premise. All newspapers and all newspaper... -
In Ohio LGBT News . . .
. . . much has happened in the past week alone. First, David Langdon, Ohio’s lawyer for religious extremists sued the... -
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