It was an impossible task. Take a multimillion-dollar-a-year Big Law partner with unambiguously conservative Republican credentials and make him look like a combination of Atticus Finch and Clarence Darrow as he pursues the far right’s ideological agenda. Somehow, while working at cross-purposes, Paul Clement and King & Spalding pulled it off. What should have been a nonevent became a major story because the firm said yes to Clement’s representation of the House Republican leadership on the Defense of Marriage Act DOMA litigationand then it said no.
But the issues are more complicated than the headlines.
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