Ninth Circuit orders Obama administration say if it will defend 'Don't Ask Don't Tell'

[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] Monday ordered [text, PDF] the Obama administration to say whether it plans to defend the "Don’t Ask Don’t Tell" (DADT) [10 USC § 654 text; JURIST news archive] policy that bars gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military. The court said that it appeared from the merit briefs in Log Cabin Republicans v. USA [case materials] that the government was not prepared to defend the constitutionality…