The most compelling single reason why Obama's legal defense team in this case should not be paid by the American taxpayer is very simple:
The complaint does not concern any action undertaken by Obama in his official capacity as president (nor as US senator, for that matter). The only issues in the complaint arise from Obama's personal history, and the case commenced before he assumed the presidency.
It's standard and legal for government attorneys to defend officials or agencies accused in civil complaints with particular actions taken in their capacity as public servants. But representing a current official on charges arising from facts entirely predating his term in in office is outside the scope of the Justice Department's statutory power.
This quote and my remarks have been on my home page for quite some time...maybe a year. IIRC, he began using the DoJ and TAX PAID attorneys about the time he hit the $1 million mark in expenditures.
As those figures climbed to $2 million and above I repeatedly made comments about the fact he was usuing the DoJ, but was promtly ignored so I put the info on my page. Somewhere I'm sure I have the source of that info, if it hasn't been scrubbed from the web.
"I was a constitutional law professor, [LIAR!]
which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution,"
"I believe in an attorney general who is actually the people's lawyer, not the president's lawyer."
BS aka BO, March 30, 2007[My how things change once one inhabits the People’s House with access to the people’s wallets. Suddenly it has become perfectly acceptable to use the attorney general and the entire department of justice as your own personal law team. Commie hypocrite! The fact that you ran for office without providing documentation proving you were constitutionally eligible proves you are no respecter of the Constitution.]