Posted on 04/25/2011 9:35:27 AM PDT by kristinn
...Paul Clement, the former U.S. solicitor general, made his resignation letter public—a decision that telegraphs the size of rift between Clement and his former employer, the well-known Atlanta-based firm King and Spalding.
He immediately joined a Washington-based firm, Bancroft, in order to continue representing the GOP.
House Speaker John Boehner had signed up Clement and his firm to argue for the constitutionality in federal court of the Defense of Marriage Act after the Justice Department had determined that it would no longer defend the law’s legality, calling it a violation of equal protection principles.
Clement and King and Spalding were to assume the Justice Department’s legal position in at least a dozen lawsuits nationwide that challenge the constitutionality of the law, which defines marriage as a solely between a man and woman and denies federal benefits to same-sex couples that are legally married.
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Lambda Legal, which advocates for equal rights for gays and lesbians, praised King and Spalding in a statement.
“Today, we learned once again that it is a bad idea to defend antigay bias and discrimination in court, and fewer and fewer people are willing to do it,” said Jon Davidson, the group’s legal director. "Some attorney will no doubt accept this job and defend DOMA in court on behalf of the House leaders — that's the way the legal system works. We're just glad it is not a law firm that has shown respect and support for their own LGBT attorneys, for our community and for our fight for equality. We welcome the firm back to the right side of history."
The firm Clement is joining, Bancroft, also includes Viet Dinh, a Georgetown University law professor who helped craft counterterrorism policies in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks as part of the Bush Justice Department.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Nope, that's the left side of history.
We have few voices on this. No right-wing talker fights the homo agenda. Sad for our once great Christian nation.
Such Alice in Wonderland logic from a “prestigious” “law” firm. The legal system is a joke....Unjust Law.....because they are rejecting Natural Law Theory and that our rights (and rules) come from the Creator. Our government was not designed to exist in an abyss of moral relativism.
It was Founded under Objective Truth. Cicero noted in the destruction of the Republic of Rome that when law becomes arbitrary and just political whims not based on moral absolutes....you get unequal law.....some groups will be able to dictate to other groups what they should think and do.
This is fascism.
Michael Savage and Laura Schlesinger did. They are marginalized because of that.
True to some extent, but how many here are willing to call a sodomite a sodomite?
The legal system is absolutely overrun with leftist haters of America, so this news is not surprising. There are many high profile, conservative legal firms which will represent the defense for this law, however. I hope Boehner quickly appoints one.
Thanks for mentioning that. It's good to know the names of the people you can respect.
Somehow I bet that if the same law firm wanted to represent anti-gay radical Islamists on some issue we wouldn’t hear a peep out of these LGBT groups...
How? Refusing to appear in court doesn't show it's a bad idea to appear in court.
"Some attorney will no doubt accept this job and defend DOMA in court on behalf of the House leaders — that's the way the legal system works.
So you admit a defense is necessary to our legal process and system of government.
We're just glad it is not a law firm that has shown respect and support for their own LGBT attorneys, for our community and for our fight for equality. We welcome the firm back to the right side of history."
So you're saying this firm are not objective lawyers, they're an advocacy group like you. Obviously they were the wrong firm.
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