Pelosi: I Hope Obama Administration Doesn’t Appeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Ruling

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http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/13/pelosi-dadt-ruling/

This afternoon, in a conference call with progressive bloggers, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) joined a growing number of Democrats in calling on the Department of Justice not to appeal yesterday’s court ruling prohibiting the implementation of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. “I hope, I haven’t really heard officially that the administration is going to appeal this, but in any event, I hope they don’t,” she said in reply to a question from AmericaBlog’s John Aravosis. “I myself have always wanted a moratorium on any discharges.”

Pelosi, who celebrated the ruling in a tweet yesterday, reiterated that the House passed legislation ending the ban with a 40 vote margin and stressed that this “is not an issue for us, it’s a value that we mustn’t cede on.”

She predicted that the House could also pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), a bill that has yet to be marked up before the House Education and Labor committee, if “we could hold our members” on the motion to recommit — a tactic under which the GOP could conceivably introduce an alternative that does not offer protections to transgender people and peel off several Democratic votes.

“It’s a choice, it’s a choice,” Pelosi stressed, speaking to disheartened LGBT voters. “We all haven’t gotten everything we want, but everything we got on these issues came from the Democrats and so that’s what I would say to them.” “It’s a fight and again, we don’t intend do lose it.”

Update CNN is reporting that DOJ "is expected to appeal" the court's DADT decision "as soon as Wednesday," according to senior administration officials.

21 Senators urge Obama not to appeal DADT decision
http://gay.americablog.com/2010/10/21-senators-urge-obama-not-to-appeal.html

[TheWraith]

1. Pelosi should know better, and I assume she does, that it's not up to Obama.

Nor to the administration. But of course, John Aravosis will pose whatever sort of loaded question he can in order to have an excuse for an Obama-bashing blog.

[Enrique]

2. it is up to him

Holder can appeal it, or not appeal it. Either one. It's his power as AG. And of course it's the president that really makes the decision.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

4. The AG could even refuse to --

appeal even if O wanted him to. :shrug:

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3. Yup, her and all those other democrats in the house and senate saying the same thing

are all just a bunch of idiots that don't understand the system at all. They really should start reading DU, the "experts" here clearly know better.

Where is it spelled out that the DOJ MUST appeal this ruling?