What would you do if you found out that the attorney you were paying to represent you, to keep your confidences, to zealously argue on your behalf, was actually asking the court to rule against you? 

This exact scenario is playing out right now in courtrooms across America.  

We The Clients

The United States Justice Department has the duty of defending lawsuits filed against the “United States” —against “We the People.”  Like all other lawyers, the attorneys of the USDOJ owe their clients the duties of loyalty, confidentiality, and zealous representation.  Until recently, the DOJ handled high-profile and controversial cases with high levels of professionalism and integrity on behalf of the people of their foremost clients, the United States.  

But not anymore. 
Background
Earlier last year, at the direction of the President and Attorney General, the DOJ abandoned its representation of the American people in a number of lawsuits filed against the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).  That was bad enough—but what happened next went beyond political correctness to violation of the most basic principles of legal professionalism.  The DOJ and other government lawyers did not simply step away from these cases after leaving their clients hanging out to dry.  Instead, the DOJ actually started filing briefs and making arguments against its former clients!  Right now, the DOJ—once pretending to defend DOMA—is using everything it learned as defense counsel to now support the plaintiffs. 
Changing Sides
This scenario would be unthinkable in any other case.  What these lawyers are essentially doing is leaving the table for  the defendant, walking across the courtroom, and sitting down next to plaintiff’s counsel.  The lawyers would be lucky not to get disbarred for flagrantly violating their duties of loyalty, confidentiality, and zealous representation.  Yet, because it is the DOJ, and the client is the United States, they don’t believe the same rules apply to them.  They think they can get away with this and no one will care. 
We beg to differ.     
The American people deserve better from the attorneys they continue to pay as they are being stabbed in the back.  At the very least, “We the People”—“We the Clients”—deserve to have our lawyers held to the same standards as every other lawyer in America.  
What can we do? 
The Pacific Justice Institute is taking action to give the American people a voice in defense of DOMA.  We are filing official complaints with the state bars and disciplinary boards of every jurisdiction where these government lawyers are licensed.  Join the thousands standing up to the DOJ and demanding that your lawyers not treat you like their opponents! 

Will you make a bold statement for justice?  Add your name to the official complaints filed against these government lawyers!