{"id":3938,"date":"2010-05-11T11:18:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T15:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=3938"},"modified":"2010-05-11T11:18:18","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T15:18:18","slug":"biden-kagan-are-right-dadt-is-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2010\/05\/11\/biden-kagan-are-right-dadt-is-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden & Kagan Are Right. DADT Is Wrong."},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Biden states<\/a> what I think is plain:<\/p>\n

While serving as the school’s dean, Kagan blocked military recruiters from the campus because of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” — which Biden called “a very bad policy.”<\/p>\n

Biden was asked, “She’s also raised some eyebrows, of course, well documented, when her time there at Harvard, the way that she banned military recruiters there on campus because of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” rule. I wanna ask you, not to get into that in particular, but I wanna ask you, was she right or wrong in doing that?”<\/p>\n

“Well, she was right,” Biden said. “Let me put this quickly in perspective. For 20 years before she came there military recruiters were not allowed on the campus in the same way other recruiters were.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In case halfwits like Sen. Sessions<\/a> didn’t notice, that was the policy of nearly every law school of quality. \u00c2\u00a0The kind of ignorant bigotry the GOP is trying to play to here isn’t, in fact, the norm everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Biden states what I think is plain: While serving as the school’s dean, Kagan blocked military recruiters from the campus because of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” — which Biden called “a very bad policy.” Biden was asked, “She’s also raised some eyebrows, of course, well documented, when her time there at Harvard, the way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3940,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938\/revisions\/3940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}