‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Allowed for Now by High Court
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The Pentagon can continue to bar openly gay people from military service, as the U.S. Supreme Court refused to reinstate a judge’s order that had temporarily suspended the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law.
The justices today left intact an appeals court decision to let the law stay in effect during a lawsuit seeking to invalidate it. A federal trial judge in September declared the law unconstitutional, and a Republican gay-rights group had sought to put that ruling into effect immediately.