{"id":946,"date":"2009-06-08T13:15:39","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T17:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=946"},"modified":"2009-06-08T13:30:37","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T17:30:37","slug":"scotus-upholds-dont-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/06\/08\/scotus-upholds-dont-ask\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS upholds &#8220;don&#8217;t ask&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-954\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/06\/1038828_u_s__supreme_court_2.jpg\" alt=\"1038828_u_s__supreme_court_2\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" \/>The <a title=\"Supreme Court has upheld\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aC_i2I17f9Ng\" target=\"_blank\">Supreme Court has upheld <\/a>the &#8220;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221; Pentagon policy barring gays and lesbians from openly serving in the military, deciding not to hear an appeal of a lower court&#8217;s rejection of a challenge to the 1993 law.\u00a0 School of Law Professor <a title=\"Robert Volk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/fullcvs\/full-time\/volk_r.html\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Volk<\/a>, an authority on gay-rights law, can discuss the legal ramifications.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Robert Volk, 617-353-3156, <a href=\"mailto:rvolk@bu.edu\">rvolk@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has upheld the &#8220;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221; Pentagon policy barring gays and lesbians from openly serving in the military, deciding not to hear an appeal of a lower court&#8217;s rejection of a challenge to the 1993 law.\u00a0 School of Law Professor Robert Volk, an authority on gay-rights law, can discuss the legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1163,714,533],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}