"In the long term, (Obama) is setting a precedent for a Republican president in 2012 to say, 'I'm not going to defend Obamacare,' " Sekulow said. "So it may sound like a good idea now, but what about the future?"
Wardle, who worked as a scholar-in-residence at the Department of Justice from 1988-89, believes that the attorneys who ultimately are tapped to defend DOMA will have relatively simple and straightforward arguments to make before the pertinent courts.
"It's not a hard case," he said. "I would suggest that any attorney who has been in practice for three years could do a competent job — certainly a better job than the Department of Justice did at trial court. I mean, this just isn't rocket science. No federal court of appeals has ever made that holding (against DOMA) which now President Obama with his magic wand has decreed."
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