FORMER AND CURRENT ATTORNEYS GENERAL AGREE: King & Spalding Messed Up. When Eric Holder and Michael Mukasey agree that you’ve acted unprofessionally, well . . . . “The good news is that lawyers on both sides of the ideological divide agree on this principle. Now, someone needs to explain it to the Human Rights Campaign and King and Spalding.”

The lawyers who defended the Gitmo terrorists aren’t happy, either. “It seems that the controversy is not going away. In fact, the backlash from the firm’s decision to fire its client may, in the long run, prove to be more damaging to the firm’s reputation and financial standing than if it had showed loyalty to client under public attack.”

UPDATE: “Atticus Finch, they ain’t.”