The Department of Justice now refuses to defend DOMA in court after ascertaining chapters of it unconstitutional, but Justice officials gave the House of Representatives the chance to nominate someone to defend the law. Boehner and other House members appointed Clement, the former U.S. solicitor common
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King and Spalding, a high-profile decree firm that had agreed to defend the federal government's law prohibiting gay marriage, has now reversed way and dropped the case
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Gay rights groups cried the rendezvous of Clement a waste of taxpayer money (he agreed to bill the government at a stiff $520 an hour) and started an online petition to pressure the firm to drip the circumstance. The firm was also informed of hypocrisy for spotlighting its gay and lesbian nondiscrimination policies on its website while protecting the federal government's right to refuse to recognize same-###### matrimony.
The House Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group?voted above celebration lines final month to support the House's lawful ward of DOMA's enforcement. The president of the Human Rights Campaign, which started the online apply opposition the fixed
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Hays didn't comment further on why King and Spalding dropped the case, but the firm did face something of an about face later House Speaker John Boehner touted the appointment of Paul Clement, Hays' associate, to defend the Defense of Marriage Act last week. (UPDATE: Clement has resigned over the decision to drop the case and will continue to represent the House of?Representatives?at a new law firm. "Defending unpopular clients is what attorneys do," he wrote.)
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