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  • Knave and Spalding: A law firm drops a politically incorrect case.

    04/26/2011 7:53:33 AM PDT · by rhema · 19 replies
    WSJ ^ | APRIL 26, 2011
    Is it now so politically incorrect to oppose gay marriage that a white shoe law firm will throw over a client rather than defend a law signed by President Bill Clinton? Apparently so, after yesterday's show of invertebrate representation by King and Spalding, the giant Atlanta-based law firm. King and Spalding dropped the House of Representatives as a client yesterday only days after agreeing to argue for the House in defending the constitutionality of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, or Doma. The jilting prompted the firm's lead attorney in the case, former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement, to resign...
  • What Happened to Gina Haspel?

    07/09/2021 4:48:10 PM PDT · by Mathews · 47 replies
    07/09/2021 | Mathews
    What happened to Trump's CIA Director? Lots of theories. Can any of you provide proof of life after November 2020?
  • Nancy Pelosi questions GOP on DOMA contract ethics

    04/20/2011 2:35:38 PM PDT · by SmithL · 11 replies
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 4/20/11 | Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau
    House Dem leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco raised transparency and ethics questions about how the House GOP hired white-shoe lawyer Paul Clement of King and Spaulding at $520 an hour to defend DOMA in another, more threatening, letter to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. Pelosi said the use of the special "Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group" to pursue the litigation "in no way diminished the need for normal oversight of the terms of any contract" that puts taxpayers on the hook for at least $500,000. Pelosi said she and Dem whip Steny Hoyer, outvoted 2-3 on the so-called BLAG, as...