SAN DIEGO — Attorneys for the Obama administration objected Thursday to a proposed worldwide injunction being considered by a federal judge that would halt the military’s ban on openly homosexual troops.
Calling the possible move “untenable,” Justice Department attorneys filed their objections in U.S. District Court in Riverside.
They said Judge Virginia Phillips, who declared the policy unconstitutional earlier this month, would be overstepping her bounds if she tried to stop it in its tracks.
Instead, she should limit any injunction to the 19,000 members of the Log Cabin Republicans, the gay-rights organization that filed the lawsuit to stop enforcement of the ban, the lawyers said.
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