“After months of doublespeak from Obama administration’s lawyers, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has demanded that the Department of Justice clarify its position on the constitutionality of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’” That’s how R. Clarke Cooper, executive director of Log Cabin Republicans, aptly characterizes this order yesterday from the Ninth Circuit in which Log Cabin Republicans is contesting the constitutionality of the still-operative “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law.

Stay tuned for the next step in the Obama administration’s litigate-to-lose strategy on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.