By now, you’ve no doubt seen that former Bush Solicitor General Paul Clement had to resign from King Spalding and join Viet Dinh’s Bancroft to continue his defense of the Defense of Marriage Act. Clement says he isn’t just quitting over DOMA itself: “Instead, I resign out of the firmly-held belief that a representation should not be abandoned because the client’s legal position is extremely unpopular in certain quarters.”
