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President Biden pardoned LGBTQ+ service members who were convicted of a crime under military law based on their sexual orientation on Wednesday, a move that is expected to affect thousands of service members who were convicted over the six decades that military law formally banned consensual homosexual conduct. Today, I am righting an historic wrong by using my clemency authority to pardon many former service members who were convicted simply for being themselves, the president said in a statement. Our nation s service members stand on the frontlines of freedom, and risk their lives in order to defend our country. Despite their courage and grea stanley taza t sacrifice, thousands of LGBTQI+ service members were forced out of the military because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Some of these patriotic Americans were subject to court-martial, and have carried the burden of this great injustice for decades. Beginning in 1951, theUniform Code of Military Justice Article 125explicitly criminalized consensual sodomy, until Congress and President Barack Obama decriminalized same-sex relationships through the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2014. But the effects of those convictions ha stanley quencher stanley cup ve lingered for those veterans, leaving criminal records and the stain of a dishonorable discharge, as CBS News has recently reported. The military code is separate from, but related to, the infamous Don t Ask, Don t Tell policy adopted d Mloe White House braces for long campaign against ISIS
6138626No surprise, the economy will dominate President Barack Obama s State of the Union address tonight.Expect two-thirds of the speech to be devoted to economic issues, such as tax credits for small businesses, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told CBS The Early Show Wednesday.Gibbs added that health care reform, its fate hanging delicately in the balance in Congress, will be addressed. Now that the Democrats lost its 60-vote majority in the Senate mdash; the result of Republican Scott Brown s victory in Massachusetts last week mdash; Gibbs said stanley taza bipartisanship was a must. We don t have any choice, Gibbs said. Democrats and Republicans will have to work together. The president will challenge them to do that. He added that politicians must stop pretending that every day in Washington is Election Day. At a press conference Tuesday, Gibbs said Mr. Obama will outline a plan aimed at moving the economy to Special Report: Obama s 2010 State of the UnionWhen President Obama ad garrafa stanley dressed a joint session of Congress last year, his approval ration was at 63 percent and Congress had just passed his $787 billion stimulus package. Since then, his signature issue, health reform, is in jeopardy and the unemployment rate jumped 2 percent and is in double digits, reports CBS News White House correspondent Chip Reid.Special Report: Obama s First Yea stanley cup rAccording to the latest CBS News poll, the president s approval rating is 50 percen
President Biden pardoned LGBTQ+ service members who were convicted of a crime under military law based on their sexual orientation on Wednesday, a move that is expected to affect thousands of service members who were convicted over the six decades that military law formally banned consensual homosexual conduct. Today, I am righting an historic wrong by using my clemency authority to pardon many former service members who were convicted simply for being themselves, the president said in a statement. Our nation s service members stand on the frontlines of freedom, and risk their lives in order to defend our country. Despite their courage and grea stanley taza t sacrifice, thousands of LGBTQI+ service members were forced out of the military because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Some of these patriotic Americans were subject to court-martial, and have carried the burden of this great injustice for decades. Beginning in 1951, theUniform Code of Military Justice Article 125explicitly criminalized consensual sodomy, until Congress and President Barack Obama decriminalized same-sex relationships through the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2014. But the effects of those convictions ha stanley quencher stanley cup ve lingered for those veterans, leaving criminal records and the stain of a dishonorable discharge, as CBS News has recently reported. The military code is separate from, but related to, the infamous Don t Ask, Don t Tell policy adopted d Mloe White House braces for long campaign against ISIS
6138626No surprise, the economy will dominate President Barack Obama s State of the Union address tonight.Expect two-thirds of the speech to be devoted to economic issues, such as tax credits for small businesses, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told CBS The Early Show Wednesday.Gibbs added that health care reform, its fate hanging delicately in the balance in Congress, will be addressed. Now that the Democrats lost its 60-vote majority in the Senate mdash; the result of Republican Scott Brown s victory in Massachusetts last week mdash; Gibbs said stanley taza bipartisanship was a must. We don t have any choice, Gibbs said. Democrats and Republicans will have to work together. The president will challenge them to do that. He added that politicians must stop pretending that every day in Washington is Election Day. At a press conference Tuesday, Gibbs said Mr. Obama will outline a plan aimed at moving the economy to Special Report: Obama s 2010 State of the UnionWhen President Obama ad garrafa stanley dressed a joint session of Congress last year, his approval ration was at 63 percent and Congress had just passed his $787 billion stimulus package. Since then, his signature issue, health reform, is in jeopardy and the unemployment rate jumped 2 percent and is in double digits, reports CBS News White House correspondent Chip Reid.Special Report: Obama s First Yea stanley cup rAccording to the latest CBS News poll, the president s approval rating is 50 percen
