DOMA: House Republicans Poised To Spend $3 Million On Legal Defense
Source: Huffington Post
House Republican leaders have signed on to spend up to $3 million to keep defending the Defense of Marriage Act in court, according to a copy of their newly revised legal contract obtained by The Huffington Post.
House Republican leaders took over the legal defense of DOMA in the spring of 2011, when Attorney General Eric Holder announced the Obama administration would no longer defend it on the grounds that they found it unconstitutional. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and other GOP leaders hired attorneys at the law firm Bancroft LLC to represent the House in court cases involving the federal ban on gay marriage -- all with taxpayer dollars.
On Jan. 4, Rep. Candice Miller (R-Mich.), who chairs the House Administration Committee, signed a revised contract with Bancroft LLC that increases the spending cap to $3 million to allow Bancroft attorneys to keep defending DOMA in various court cases. The revised contract also bears the signatures of Bancroft partner Paul Clement and Kerry Kircher, general counsel for the House of Representatives.
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The revised contract comes on the heels of House Republican leaders inserting language into the rules package for the 113th Congress that authorizes the House legal team to keep paying outside counsel to defend DOMA. The rules package also states that the House legal team continues to "speak for" all House members in its defense of DOMA -- language that infuriated Democrats opposed to the matter. All but one Republican, Rep. Walter Jones (N.C.), voted to pass the rules package, effectively endorsing the DOMA language. But a Jones spokesman told The Huffington Post that Jones' opposition wasn't DOMA-related.
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sakabatou
(42,152 posts)Disgusting.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)just wondering no snark or anything
I just do not know what part of the bible is against gay marriage
I only see signs like Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve but not bible quotes
anyway, that 3Mil could have gone to charities!!!!
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)At least, that's what I think it is.
valerief
(53,235 posts)eggplant
(3,911 posts)...when the couples started filing as married filing jointly.
Oh wait, they are in favor of lowering taxes.
can't ... hold ... dissonant ... ideas ... in ... head ... >* pop *<
Dollface
(1,590 posts)Stringfellow Hawke
(25 posts)The House Republicans should remove $3 million and another $10 million from their warchest to pay for the DOMA which is going to be a massive overturn.
We should not be paying one red cent from our coffers.
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)Keep it up, and they'll be spending as much on flowers at the funeral of the Republican Party entirely.
(I'll send a card)
obama2terms
(563 posts)Repukes whine about having how gay people getting married goes against their beliefs, well my tax dollars going to fund something that hurts gay people goes against my beliefs.
NYtoBush-Drop Dead
(490 posts)JudyM
(29,248 posts)HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)to cut the "deficit". but it's OK to spend MILLIONS so those bad gays cannot marry.
ChiTownChavista
(55 posts)The Repugs hypocrisy is beyond belief.
Politicub
(12,165 posts)There is nothing good or redeeming about the GOP. Nothing.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)Not just the money, either, but trying to save the sinking ship DOMA that is going down soon, anyway