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 […]
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Eat Mor Chikin! AFA Calls for a BUYcott of Chick-Fil-A This Week
April 27, 2011 – 3:35 pm
Buy a chicken sandwich, and thank the manager for the company’s support of traditional family values. AFA is encouraging you to “BUYCOTT” a Chick-fil-A restaurant during the week of April 25-30. When you pay for your meal, take a moment to thank them for standing on Christian principles by printing and handing them the Chick-fil-A “Thank You!” […]
More Props for Paul Clement from Across the WaPo Aisle
April 27, 2011 – 2:48 pm
WaPo columnist Jonathan Capeheart is a big advocate for gay marriage–and no fan of NOM, as we learned from the Maryland fight. But kudos to him for recognizing a great man in Paul Clement: From the standpoint of legal principle … Paul Clement’s decision to bolt for Bancroft PLLC was the right one. I don’t […]
The New Yorker: Why Doma Deserves A Lawyer
April 27, 2011 – 2:25 pm
Margaret Talbot joins a growing list of liberals disturbed at the bullying tactics HRC has used, saying it carries a “whiff of McCarthyite groupthink.”
Speaker Fox Concedes Defeat on SSM in RI, Will Push Civil Union Bill
April 27, 2011 – 1:51 pm
From the AP (more to follow): Rhode Island’s House speaker says legislation extending marriage rights to gay couples is dead for the year. House Speaker Gordon Fox, who is gay and is a leading supporter of the gay marriage bill, says that it’s clear the bill won’t overcome opposition in the Senate. Fox, a Providence […]
Stanford Undergrad Defends Marriage in University Paper
April 27, 2011 – 11:00 am
Ben VanBerkum is the co-founder of the Stanford Anscombe Society and published this in the opinion section of the Stanford Review: Marriage. The word is loaded with political emotions in today’s cultural environment. Changes in societal perceptions have made marriage a hotly-contested issue, both politically and philosophically. The question of who can and cannot legally […]
AG Eric Holder Defends Paul Clement
April 27, 2011 – 10:00 am
Even the man responsible for ensuring that DOJ dropped its defense of DOMA says it deserves to be defended: The former Bush administration lawyer under fire for defending the federal ban on gay marriage is getting support from an unexpected source – Attorney General Eric Holder. Holder told reporters Tuesday that Clement is “doing that […]
Judge Walker Replaces Prop 8 Video with Nuremberg Trial Tapes
April 27, 2011 – 9:00 am
Local KQED news reports: Although Judge Vaughn Walker informed the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last week that he was planning to use the excerpt from the Prop. 8 trial again this week in a talk at Gonzaga University Law School, a spokeswoman now tells me the retired jurist has decided not to. Instead, Walker […]
LA Times Speak Truth to Power: Evan Wolfson Wrong, Clement Right DOMA Deserves a Legal Defense
April 27, 2011 – 8:00 am
From the LA Times staff opinion page: This is civics book stuff [that all clients deserve representation], but it’s controversial with some gay activists. Evan Wolfson of Freedom to Marry referred to Clement as a “hired gun,” an appellation that can describe any lawyer who doesn’t work pro bono. (If Clement defended DOMA out of […]
UK Court: Catholic Agency Must Do Gay Adoptions
April 27, 2011 – 7:00 am
From the UK Guardian: A Catholic adoption agency has lost a two-year battle to be excluded from laws that ban discrimination against homosexuals. Leeds-based Catholic Care wanted exemption from the 2007 Sexual Orientation Regulations, which require it to consider gay and lesbian couples as prospective parents. But a ruling on Tuesday by the Charity Tribunal […]
Marriage Amendment to be Introduced in MN Senate!
April 26, 2011 – 4:10 pm
In Minnesota, a marriage amendment is being announced right now which would put the issue before the people of the North Star State in 2012. It will shortly be introduced officially in the MN State Senate. Here is more from the press release just published: “The proposed constitutional amendment asks voters to define marriage as […]
Even Ted Olson Agrees: Abandoning Clients Is Wrong
April 26, 2011 – 2:53 pm
The LA Times: But the firm’s abrupt withdrawal surprised some veteran Washington lawyers, who said they were not aware of a major law firm ever dropping a case because of bad publicity. “I don’t know of anything comparable to this. You have to be willing to stand your ground,” said Theodore Olson, a partner at […]
Video: Some Indiana Students Want to Take Away Your Chick-Fil-A
April 26, 2011 – 2:40 pm
Not content with a personal or communal boycott, some activists are attempting to prevent all students from eating at Chick-Fil-A. Without the University’s intervention, apparently they do not believe they can stop students from eating there: This all sounds like all the more reason to “Eat Mor Chikin!”
Law Prof Steve Sanders on the Demonization of Paul Clement
April 26, 2011 – 2:11 pm
Steve Sanders, a proponent of SSM writing at the University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog, registers some serious doubts about the wisdom of targeting DOMA’s defender: …as a lawyer who recently worked in the Supreme Court and appellate practice group of a major national law firm, I’ve found myself uncomfortable with the demonization of […]
Ben Smith: State of Elite Hypocrisy
April 26, 2011 – 1:23 pm
Ben Smith blogs: So King and Spalding was muscled into dropping its defense of DOMA [yesterday]. White & Case partner and former American Bar Association President Carolyn Lamm, meanwhile, bragged earlier this month to the Washingtonian of the virtue in representing Libya against terror victims…. Lamm, incidentally, put the ABA on the record in support of […]
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