Tag Archives: John Cornyn
LGBT inclusions in immigration: posturing or real?
LGBT concerns were included this month in a new immigration reform bill introduced to Congress, but they were not part of President Obama’s words in support of that bill and some say the bill is just a mid-term election tool.
Gay issues continue to dominate as Senate committee recommends Kagan’s nomination
Both “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and same-sex marriage continued to be a prominent focus of the confirmation proceedings for Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court, as the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday recommended the confirmation.
Kagan: ‘vigorously defended’ DADT
Never before in the history of Supreme Court confirmation hearings have gay issues played such a prominent role.
Kagan acknowledges she’s “generally progressive”
One message Republicans tried to hammer away at this week, in an effort to derail Elena Kagan’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, must have struck many LGBT viewers of her confirmation hearing as deeply ironic.
