Boehner Hires $5 Million Lawyer To Defend Unconstitutional Law

[babsbunny]

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/564364/boehner_hires_%245_million_lawyer_to_defend_unconstitutional_law/#paragraph4

Earlier today, Speaker John Boehner’s (R) office announced that American taxpayers would pay former Bush Solicitor General Paul Clement to defend the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act. Clement, a former law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia, is widely viewed as one of nation’s leading appellate attorneys. He is also one of the most expensive:

Now head of King & Spalding’s appellate practice, Clement is rumored to be raking in $5 million a year—a figure seemingly confirmed during a panel discussion in July about the future of DC law firms. One of the panelists, O’Melveny & Myers’s DC managing partner Brian Brooks, let slip that O’Melveny had been in the running to land “a top DOJ official” but dropped out of the bidding when the annual ante reached $5 million—with three years guaranteed. “Everybody in the know knew it was Paul,” says a lawyer who attended the event.

[notadmblnd]

1. I thought republicans were against frivolous law suits?

[The Second Stone]

2. A frivolous lawsuit is one that is filed against you,

not one that you file.

[Historic NY]

3. I thought the budget was pay go...where is this budgeted expense?