Defending DOMA, for $500/hour

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http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0411/Defending_DOMA_for_500hour.html#

Gerstein reports:

Leaders in the House have agreed to pay up to $520 an hour and up to $500,000 to a law firm retained to defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act after President Barack Obama instructed the Justice Department not to defend a key part of the law.

The contract is between the General Counsel of the House, the House Administration Committee and King and Spalding. Firm partner Paul Clement, a former Solicitor General under President George W. Bush, is leading the defense of the 1996 law, which bans federal recognition of same-sex marriages.

Clements, widely viewed as one of the country's top appeals lawyers, worked with Barack Obama on the Harvard Law Review.



House sets $500K, $520-an-hour contract for DOMA defense
http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/

Kirsten Gillibrand
Disappointed the House is going to waste half a million of taxpayers $$ to defend discriminatory #DOMA law.
http://twitter.com/#!/SenGillibrand

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1. I don't think I can take much more of this s*** !

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. But lawyers are evil!

[xchrom]

3. i thought we were broke?

$500,000 would house a few people for a long time.

we have nothing better to do?