There’s been an avalanche of news relating to the President’s decision to stop defending DOMA. NOM has been on the front ranks responding and taking the next steps to defend marriage at this critical time. Here’s a summary of our activities so far: AUDIO: Sean Hannity gives Maggie Gallagher and Brian Brown a shout out […]

From FRC’s Washington Update: The administration seems to be coordinating these efforts [to defeat DOMA] with the assault on marriage in the states. Yesterday, within two hours of the President’s statement, a document was quietly filed in the Proposition 8 lawsuit. And not just any document, but a 23-page motion that noted the Justice Department’s […]

Ed Whelan at NRO’s Bench Memos: It ought to be a simple matter for the House of Representatives to retain its own counsel to move to intervene to defend DOMA in the various cases in which it is under attack. Indeed, Attorney General Holder, in his letter to Speaker Boehner, expressly states that DOJ attorneys […]

Megan Mcardle in The Atlantic quotes Orin Kerr at Volokh Conspiracy: There’s an interesting analytical similarity between the DOJ’s position on DOMA and the Bush Administration’s reliance on its Article II theories. If you look at AG Holder’s reasons for why DOJ won’t defend DOMA, it is premised on DOJ’s adoption of a contested theory […]

“This is outrageous and unthinkable that the President would abandon the defense of marriage,” said Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel. “President Obama has betrayed the American people by his refusal to defend the federal law that affirms what many courts upheld as constitutional, namely, that marriage is between one man and one […]