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| Herman Cain (above); NOM’s Brian Brown (below) |
What do anti-gay National Organization for Marriage (NOM) and Herman Cain have in common? Cain’s legal team consists of Sarah Troupis, Scott Bieniek and Joseph LaRue, three attorneys who until very recently worked for NOM’s bigshot GOP lawyer James Bopp, according to the Wall Street Journal‘s Legal Blog.
While under Bopp’s employ at James Madison Center for Free Speech they worked on NOM-linked cases like Doe v. Reed, Family PAC v. McKenna and ProtectMarriage.com v. Bowen.
If the name James Bopp sounds familiar it’s because he’s the guy behind the case Citizens United v. FEC. In their 2010 ruling on Citizens United the US Supreme Court removed limits on campaign spending by corporations, unions and nonprofit groups but kept in place the requirement that the identities of campaign donors be disclosed to the public.
Bopp’s NOM-related cases seem to follow this model: use a ballot measure or legislative campaign about domestic partnerships or marriage equality as a vehicle for attacking campaign finance disclosure laws or other open government laws.
Here’s the question: What does this NOM-linked legal team tell us about Herman Cain?
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Those NOM lawyers must be twisting their knickers over the legal mess that Herman Cain is placing on their table.
already serving many masters: 1. the partnership which doles out compensation at their law firm, and NOM’s twin goals of 2. marriage inequality and 3. no public disclosure in U.S. political campaigns
now they must tackle 4. accusations of sexual harassment against their client
anticipating the trainwreck is somewhat amusing, but I’d prefer not to gawk at the bloody result
Why does FDL spend so much time on the GOPer candidates? Considering that “our” candidate is likely Obama in 2012 as well as the performance of “our” party in Congress, we’ve got plenty of stuff to worry about without going apeshit over this or that GOP idiot.
Incompetence? Isn’t that the same crew that defended Prop H8?
Jimmy-boy hosted a fundraiser for the Mittster either last night or this evening in Philly. So just like the TeaBirchers, he’s hedging hits bets by playing both sides against each other…