US Politics in Trump era
Publisher: Slate Magazine
Author: Mark Joseph Stern
27 Sep 2017
The DOJ’s new anti-gay legal posture just got shut down in federal court.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit had a burning question for Donald Trump’s Department of Justice on Tuesday: What are you doing in our courthouse? By the end of the day, the answer still wasn’t clear. Something else was, though: The DOJ’s new anti-gay legal posture is not going to be received with open arms by the federal judiciary.