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Leading Legal Analyst: K&S Turning and Running "Astonishing"

 

Andrew Cohen, chief legal analyst and legal editor for CBS News --who is no friend of DOMA-- reacts to the news that King & Spalding has dropped its defense of the case:

Just last Friday, in this space, I defended the law firm's right to represent unpopular clients and causes in the face of fierce political attack by the folks at the Human Rights Campaign. They seemed downright giddy Monday in the wake of the law firm's withdrawal and Clement's subsequent resignation. But I'd like to know more from Hays at King & Spalding before I come to any final conclusions. And I have some questions as well, starting with: Why would a touchy firm take the case to begin with? The idea that a law firm as big and as powerful and as established as this would just turn tail and run because of external political pressure from a non-governmental organization is an astonishing one to contemplate, is it not?

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