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Conservatives Renew Political Charges Against Holder, DOJ

By ADF Alliance Alert

MainJustice.com: Nimocks, who is senior legal counsel at the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian nonprofit organization, focused his disapproval of the DOJ on its announcement last month that it would no longer defend the 1996 law that restricts the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman. He said the decision on the Defense of Marriage Act raises questions about the role politics may have played. ?When you look at the whole ball of wax and the legal analysis, it seems very clear that the decision here is not one based necessarily on the rule of law but is a more politically or ideologically driven decision, which puts the rule of law at risk,? Nimocks said.

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on April 01, 2011 (boomark / email).