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On December 6, the Department of Justice submitted a written Declaration claiming that Pentagon compliance with a Court's order to allow transgender candidates to apply for enlistment as of January 1 would "impose extraordinary burdens" on a military that "would not be adequately and properly prepared to begin processing transgender applicants." The Declaration, however, rewrites the history of transgender military policy and distorts the evidence, disregarding that the Court's order did not create new military policy, but only directed the military to return to its own policy on transgender enlistment as defined by the current Secretary of Defense. Three former Service Secretaries and one former Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness have confirmed that the military had already completed many of the necessary preparations for the lifting of the enlistment ban by the time of the Presidential transition in January, 2017. The Declaration's assertion that implementing the Court's order will impose "extraordinary burdens" because the military "would not be adequately and properly prepared" is incorrect. The Declaration's assertion that transgender applicants for military service are uniquely complicated and difficult to evaluate is incorrect. The Declaration's assertions that recruiters will not understand government identification documents that reflect changes in gender, and are not prepared to obtain supporting medical documents, are incorrect. The Declaration's assertion that the Court's order will result in transgender applicants not receiving "the appropriate medical and administrative accession screening" is incorrect. The Declaration's assertion that "key personnel" have "rotated" into different duties, therefore setting back the pace of implementation and requiring more time, is not a reason for delay.

This paper discusses the developmental dynamics of Bosnian and Herzegovinian (BiH) lgbt (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) activism in the context of the European integration (Europeanization) process. Although the official politics of BiH authorities aspires towards the European Union (eu), the country's political deadlock and the steady position of the potential eu candidate, have created conditions in which activism operates with declarative and financial support from European organizations while having very limited impact on policies and local institutions. In this set-up, lgbt activism and non-heterosexual sexualities are placed between the specific local context of an ethnocratic state and the Western European narratives of lgbt rights and freedoms. I draw upon a range of primary sources, including the material obtained through a series of semi-structured interviews with activists, to argue that, for the time being, the lgbt movement in BiH lacks either governmental, political or societal support. However, marginal sites of non-heteronormative resistance could potentially appear as a departure point for creating an intersectionality-sensitive political platform from which to struggle for a general civic and political equality and institutional accountability.

Each year, millions of Americans cast votes for specific candidates or on specific ballot measures. Each such vote generates potential "electoral evidence," the admissibility of which may be the subject of dispute in subsequent litigation. The evidence may take various forms, including the marked ballot itself, a voter's testimony regarding her vote, or her written or oral statements regarding her vote. Electoral evidence is most commonly offered in litigation over the election outcome itself, with the parties seeking to determine how certain individuals voted to resolve a close election. However, its potential relevance is not limited to such proceedings. It may also be substantively relevant in a case in which the voter is alleged to have discriminated against someone, or to prove potential juror or witness bias against a party. While election contests for specific candidates only provide insight into a voter's general political leanings that is only marginally relevant to prove discriminatory purpose or bias in most instances, votes cast in recent years on gay and transgender rights, affirmative action, religious freedom, tort reform, and abortion provide insight into a voter's views about discrete categories of persons that is far more probative of such matters. The admissibility of electoral evidence has been given piecemeal consideration in judicial opinions, but has not received comprehensive attention in any judicial opinion or in the scholarly literature. This Article is the first comprehensive examination of the evidentiary issues that arise when a party seeks to offer electoral evidence in judicial proceedings. It identifies three dangers associated with admitting electoral evidence: its trustworthiness; the individual and societal interests in protecting ballot secrecy; and the risk of unfair prejudice. It demonstrates that these dangers are addressed in a fragmentary and incomplete fashion by existing evidentiary rules. Relying on social science research about the veracity of voters in recounting ...

Cover -- LGBTQ POLITICS -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- PART I: BUILDING LGBTQ MOVEMENTS -- 2. Rethinking GLBT as a Political Category in U.S. Politics -- 3. Politics outside the Law: Transgender Lives and the Challenge of Legibility -- 4. The Treatment and Prevention of HIV Bodies: The Contemporary Politics and Science of a Thirty-Year-Old Epidemic -- 5. Queering Reproductive Justice: Toward a Theory and Praxis for Building Intersectional Political Alliances -- 6. The "B" Isn't Silent: Bisexual Communities and Political Activism -- 7. Embodying Margin to Center: Intersectional Activism among Queer Liberation Organizations -- 8. From "Don't Drop the Soap" to PREA Standards: Reducing Sexual Victimization of LGBT People in the Juvenile and Criminal Justice Systems -- PART II: LGBTQ POLITICS IN THE DISCIPLINE OF POLITICAL SCIENCE -- 9. Our Stories -- 10. The Politics of LGBTQ Politics in APSA: A History (and Its) Lesson(s) -- 11. Power, Politics, and Difference in the American Political Science Association: An Intersectional Analysis of the New Orleans Siting Controversy -- 12. Where Has the Field Gone? An Investigation of LGBTQ Political Science Research -- 13. Unfulfilled Promises: How Queer Feminist Political Theory Could Transform Political Science -- PART III: LGBTQ POLITICS AND PUBLIC OPINION IN THE UNITED STATES -- 14. The How, Why, and Who of LGBTQ "Victory": A Critical Examination of Change in Public Attitudes Involving LGBTQ People -- 15. Equality or Transformation? LGBT Political Attitudes and Priorities and the Implications for the Movement -- 16. Case Studies of Black Lesbian and Gay Candidates: Winning Identity Politics in the Obama Era -- 17. Equality in the House: The Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus and the Substantive Representation of LGBTQ Interests.

Foreword: Sifting and wiinnowing in the "post-truth" era / Deepa Kumar -- Introduction / Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff -- The top censored stories and media analysis of 2016-17 / complied and edited by Andy Lee Roth: Widespread lead contamination threatens children's health, and could triple household water bills -- Over six trillion dollars in unaccountable Army spending -- Pentagon paid UK PR firm for fake Al-Qaeda videos -- Voter suppression in the 2016 Presidential election -- Big data and dark money behind the 2016 election -- Antibiotic resistant 'superbugs" threaten health and foundations of modern medicine -- The toll of US Navy training on wildlife in the North Pacific -- Maternal mortality a growing threat in the US -- DNC claims right to select Presidential candidate -- 2016: a record year for global internet shutdowns -- Law enforcement surveillance of phone records -- US quietly established new "anti-propaganda" center -- Right-wing money promotes model legislation to restrict free speech on university campuses -- Judges across US using racially biased software to assess defendants' risk of committing future crimes -- Shell understood climate change as early as 1991 and ignored it -- "Resilient" Indian communities struggle to cope with impacts of climate change -- Young plaintiffs invoke constitutional grounds for climate protection -- Rise in number of transgender people murdered -- Inmates and activists protest chemical weapons in US prisons and jails -- Seattle activist group leads first successful campaign to defund police -- Fossil fuel industry "colonizing" US universities -- Lawsuit against Illinois Department of corrections exposes militarization of law enforcement inside prisons -- Facebook buys sensitive user data to offer marketers targeted advertising -- Eight use of force policies to prevent killings by police -- Juvenile court fees punish children for their families' poverty -- Post-truth dystopia: fake news, alternative facts, and ongoing war on reality- junk food news and news abuse for 2016-17 / Nolan Higdon, Mickey Huff, and others -- Media democracy in action / introduction by Andy Lee Roth, with contributions by Rachael Jolley, Chase Palmieri, Mahsood Ebrahim, Julianne Rodriguez, Kevin Gosztola, Rania Khalek, and Gennie Gebhart -- The new American authoritarianism: how the corporate media normalized racism in 2016 / Nolan Higdon and Nicholas L. Baham III -- Trump universe / words by Adam Bessie and pictures by Peter Glanting -- Defamation as censorship in the social-media era: Who counts as a media defendant? / Elizabeth Blakey -- Still manufacturing consent: the propaganda model at thirty / Edward S. Herman -- Breaking through power: mass media blacks out the Super Bowl of citizen action / Ralph Nader.