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The plaintiffs had filed a motion requesting the denial of the extension. (Tipped by JMG reader Baltimatt)

Via Right Wing Watch: There can be no better demonstration of Glenn Beck’s raging hypocrisy than the perfect example he inadvertently provided on his television program last night. Extremely disturbed by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s statement that “extreme conservatives … have no place in the state of New York,” Beck dedicated his entire opening monologue last night to warning …

As promised last week, today the ACLU sued the state of Utah to force the recognition of the more than 1200 same-sex marriages that took place before the Supreme Court issued its stay. The plaintiffs are profiled here. Read the full filing here. (Via Equality Case Files)

The US ambassador to Nigeria says the United States will not be cutting aid to that nation despite this month’s super-criminalization of homosexuality. The ambassador went on to express concern about how US funds might be dispersed without violating the new laws. Via the Nigerian newspaper Leadership: Fielding questions from newsmen on whether the US would withdraw its financial aid …

Chris Geidner reports at Buzzfeed: A federal appeals court Tuesday held that lawyers cannot exclude potential jurors from a jury based on their sexual orientation. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a unanimous decision, held that discrimination based on sexual orientation is subject to heightened scrutiny — a decision the court concluded has been made in action, though not …

Via the Washington Post: BBC correspondent Steve Rosenberg happened to duck into the men’s room in the biathlon center in Sochi on Monday and thought he was seeing double: two toilets in one stall. He tweeted his photo, and it quickly took off in the multilingual world of Twitter, with Russians gleefully retweeting the photo as a sign of corruption, …

Today Florida finally joined the list of states facing down a lawsuit to overturn a ban on same-sex marriage. Via the National Center for Lesbian Rights: The couples are from Miami and the surrounding area. Four of the couples are raising children, and another couple has an adult child and two grandchildren. The couples are: Catherina Pareto and Karla Arguello; …

In March the annual cavalcade of crackpottery known as CPAC will return to the Gaylord Convention Center in the Maryland suburbs of Washington DC. “We are proud to announce that Senator Ted Cruz and Rep. Paul Ryan are confirmed speakers and Gov. Sarah Palin is an invited speaker for CPAC 2014,” ACU chairman Al Cardenas said in a statement provided …