Constitutional Law
Nov. 18, 2010
End Military Discrimination Now
The prolonging of the discriminatory "don't ask, don't tell" policy is unnecessary. By Erwin Chemerinsky of UCI School of Law.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
The military's unconstitutional "don't ask, don't tell" policy should be ended immediately and it is inexplicable that the Obama administration is trying so hard to keep it in place. It is unfortunate that a conservative panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ignored basic principles of equity and stayed a nationwide injunction halting the enforcement of this discriminatory policy. On Nov. 1, the Supreme Court re...
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