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Obama Disengages

Wall Street Journal, by James Taranto Posted By: Desert Fox- Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:06:59 GMT Our Tuesday column on President Obama, Congress and Libya prompts reader Hillel Cohen to ask us about a tangentially related subject: You wrote about the President's not having fulfilled his constitutional obligation to involve Congress in his Libya decisions. But what do you say about his decision last month to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act because he thinks it may be unconstitutional? Ben Stein describes it as a "major constitutional coup."