Boehner Hires Lawyer to Defend DOMA, Demands DOJ Pick Up the Tab
- Stephanie Samuel - Christian Post Reporter
- Apr 19, 2011
Republican House Speaker John Boehner wants the Department of Justice to reimburse the House for the hundreds of thousands of dollars it may need to spend in order to defend in court a federal traditional marriage law that the Obama Administration has refused to protect.
"The burden of defending DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act), and the resulting costs associated with any litigation that would have otherwise been born by DOJ, has fallen to the House," the Ohio congressman wrote in a letter, published Monday, to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
"Obviously, DOJ's decision results in DOJ no longer needing the funds it would have otherwise expended defending the constitutionality of DOMA. It is my intent that those funds be diverted to the House for reimbursement of any costs incurred by and associated with the House, and not DOJ, defending DOMA."
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