Posted on 08/04/2005 7:24:32 AM PDT by conserv13
WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. worked behind the scenes for a coalition of gay rights activists, and his legal expertise helped them persuade the Supreme Court to issue a landmark 1996 ruling protecting people against discrimination because of their sexual orientation.
Then a private lawyer in Washington specializing in appellate work, Roberts helped represent the gay activists as part of his pro bono work at his law firm. He did not write the legal briefs or argue the case before the high court; he was instrumental in reviewing the filings and preparing oral arguments, several lawyers intimately involved in the case said.
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It's just a hit piece.
No, the meltdown will occur when men and women can serve openly gay in the military.
Arguing against discrimination is a lot different than arguing for special rights. Unless you think gays have no rights at all.
Also..this will make him an Honorary Citizen of
Massachusetts....John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, and Barney
Frank will now endorse him...but don't bet on it?? Jake
As I posted on another thread about this:
I see from a number of the posts on this thread that the left's smear tactic campaign is working.
Has anybody asked him why he did it? Has anybody done research on the case? Maybe there was some actual discrimination going on, above and beyond what the homos usually complain about? Has anybody asked him if he thought it was a mistake?
You people sure are quick to act on this, aren't you.
They can't?
LOL!
You haven't been around long, have you? They have more money dedicated to digging up trash than you and I will make in our lifetimes. He didn't just roll out of law school. He may not have a "federal" paper trail, but the left knows what he had for breakfast in 1987 by now.
And if it IS about not having a paper trail, on what criterion, exactly, did the president nominate him?
Arguing it pro bono as a professed Catholic is entirely significant.
DON THE TINFOIL!!!
WOOHOOOO!!!!
BORK ROBERTS!!!
give me a break. As I said, this site is headed for a few people to have meltdowns while the rest of us laugh our @$$e$ off at you.
Go light on the salt, please.
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Roger that....
butter on your popcorn?
Invest in tin foil futures..
yep that and Prozac :)
Divide and Conquer
I don't agree. Gays should not have special rights ... but they have the rights that all Americans have. I don't see a problem.
Lawyers don't take only cases they're ideologically aligned with. This means nothing.
A tad, please.
Hit piece - look at the subject of the cae, not the "Gay" issue. It was a discrimination case straight and simple. Protecting citizens' rights is a good thing in a Judge even though some citizens happen to practice what I consider to be abominations. If he was prjudicial in this, he would be unfit. Many are trying to make it seem as if he did pro-bono work because the clients were homosexual, rather than the real issue of the case.
If I see a group of folks beating up a person just because they don't like that person, I will do my best to stop the aggressors, no matter what I may think of the victim.
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