Did Obama’s DOJ deliberately sabotage the defense of DOMA? That’s what I think, and that’s what I said in my nationally syndicated column. Mother Jones and others are picking up the meme and asking the same question.

When a scholar of Richard Epstein’s stature refers to the appearance of something “almost like collusive litigation” and the need for an intervenor who actually wants to defend the law, you’ve got a credibility problem.