Dems to John Boehner: Your Lawyer Is "Unreasonable"

[William769]

Democratic lawmakers don't like the "harmful and unreasonable arguments" being used by House speaker John Boehner's lawyer to keep the Defense of Marriage Act on the books.

A contingent from Congress, including all four of the gay members, wrote to Boehner demanding a chance to confront the lawyer with what they say is "discredited" and "biased" research on homosexuality that was used in a legal brief representing Congress in court.

DOMA prevents federal recognition of same-sex marriages and allows states to ignore such unions when performed in other states. Lawyer Paul Clement, hired by Republican leaders in the House of Representatives to defend the law, has argued that it's allowable because gay people are inferior parents, being gay is a choice, and LGBT people aren't regularly victims of discrimination and so they shouldn't be a protected class.

House Republican leadership opted to pay for a legal defense of DOMA after President Obama decided in February that it was an indefensible law because it violates the Constitution. The first firm Boehner hired backed out after it was criticized for siding with DOMA, but Clement decided to leave and take the case with him to Bancroft PLLC.

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/09/26/Dems_to_John_Boehner_Your_Lawyer_Is_Unreasonable/

[TriMera]

1. Paul Clement has the only job created by

Republicans so far in this Congressional session. I'm sure he is getting paid well to do it, too.

[Chan790]

3. Actually John Boehner also hired himself a maid on the public dollar.

I shit you not. We're paying to hire him a second maid (he already has one) to clean up after him. He hired her to clean up after events at his residence and he billed it to the government as connected to his official capacities.

That's two jobs the GOP has created...now we just need 25M more.

[TriMera]

4. I stand corrected.

;-)

[Angry Dragon]

6. Link for the claim of taxpayers paying for the maid.........

[Chan790]

7. I stand corrected on that point...

I pulled the stories and there is no mention of who is paying for the maid. Actually it's a circular reporting mess...a DU post cites a blog that cites another blog that doesn't cite a source...I can't find a solid news source that he even really hired a maid. Oh well. I was going to ask if she was documented...it'd be too like him to hire an undocumented foreign worker to be cheap.

But we're a lack for proof that his maid exists.

[Angry Dragon]

8. That is why I asked

when I went searching all that happened was everything went in a circle

Thanks

[louis-t]

2. Their first two arguments (excuses) prove their last argument

is false. "gay people are inferior parents, being gay is a choice, and LGBT people aren't regularly victims of discrimination and so they shouldn't be a protected class."


:shrug:

[jberryhill]

5. Move for Rule 11 sanctions

That would be a hoot.