Last week, John Boehner announced that he and the rest of the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the House of Representatives on the constitutional issues regarding Section III of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DoMA) had signed former Bush Solicitor General Paul Clement and the King & Spalding law firm to their case. LGBT advocates were not happy. Particularly Lambda Legal, the group working longest and hardest on LGBT equality.

“I think it's going to hurt them in their recruiting of future lawyers,” Jon Davidson, legal director of Lambda Legal, told Huffington Post.

It seems King & Spalding heard the disappointment of the LGBT community and decided not to defend the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group after all. In a statement released Monday, King & Spalding chairman Robert D. Hays, Jr. told reporters that the firm is withdrawing from the case.

“Today the firm filed a motion to withdraw from its engagement to represent the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the House of Representatives on the constitutional issues regarding Section III of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act,” Hays said. "Last week we worked diligently through the process required for withdrawal."

However, Paul Clement is not about to back out of a promise. He resigned from King & Spalding, and intends to remain on the case.