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Repeal to Be Signed Wednesday
 Neal Broverman
          
          Dec 20, 2010
          
        
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Neal Broverman is the Editorial Director, Print of Pride Media, publishers of The Advocate, Out, Out Traveler, and Plus, spending more than 20 years in journalism. He indulges his interest in transportation and urban planning with regular contributions to Los Angeles magazine, and his work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and USA Today. He lives in the City of Angels with his husband, children, and their chiweenie.
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President Obama will sign the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" Wednesday, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs indicated Monday.
An exact schedule has yet to be laid out, but Gibbs said he expected a formal ceremony for the signing on December 22. A presidential press conference is also expected this week, but not until the Senate has wrapped up its business, including the contentious arms treaty with Russia.
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“It’s just moving paper around. There’s no chance that one of the plaintiffs could continue to serve," Judge Judith Rogers told government lawyers.

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Press freedom groups voiced concern over the possibility of Lemon being charged. One DOJ official implied he may still be.

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"I can't take this complicity of people rolling over," the California governor said. But is his joke homophobic?

“There’s now a place for us to have this conversation, to be able to talk as openly as this,” Oglivy said.