Quotes of the Day: When Ken Cuccinelli and the New York Times agree you screwed up, you screwed up.
King & Spalding’s willingness to drop a client, the U.S. House of Representatives, in connection with the lawsuit challenging the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was such an obsequious act of weakness that I feel compelled to end your legal association with Virginia so that there is no chance that one of my legal clients will be put in the embarrassing and difficult situation like the client you walked away from, the House of Representatives.
— Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, in a letter firing the law firm of King & Spalding.
A second quote of the day, from the New York Times, after the jump.
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We strongly oppose the federal statute known as the Defense of Marriage Act, which bans recognizing same-sex marriage. House Republicans should not have used taxpayer money to hire outside lawyers to defend it. But the decision of those lawyers, the law firm of King & Spalding, to abandon their clients is deplorable.
— the New York Times editorial board, in an editorial entitled The Duty of Counsel.
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