Roberts worked for gay rights activists

The Baltimore Sun ^ | 8/4/05 | Richard Serrano

[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.

[Rutles4Ever]

Mike - your immature attitude is only further proof you have nothing to back up your assertion. Without a paper trail demonstrating a conservative philosophy, why are you so adamant that it will turn out that way?

[MikefromOhio]

nope.

believe me I have NO Ann coulter fascination.

However, some individuals on here will take ANY Roberts thread and say "Ann coulter was right" over and over again.

it's annoying.

[Antoninus]

Unless he volunteered for this particular case because he thought it was such a good cause...

Unfortunately, pro bono indicates to me that he volunteered. Roberts appears to be morphing into Souter before our very eyes.

Five years from now if there's a 6-3 or 7-2 pro-sodomy majority on the SCOTUS, we may look back and rue the day we ever thought that G. W. Bush was any different than his daddy. I pray there's something to this story that we're missing.

[MikefromOhio]

no....

and I would bet that he wouldn't if he were a justice, however he was a lawyer at the time, not a justice.

[MikefromOhio]

Yeah I think so too.

If she is snakebitten, she could just admit it instead of writing an throughly unreadable article.

[Antoninus]

personally, the guy is able to put aside his personal feelings for a client.

Pro-bono indicates that he volunteered to work on this case. What kind of lawyer seeks out a sodomy "rights" case to work on for free? You're mischaracterizing this, I'm afraid.

[MikefromOhio]

your immature attitude is only further proof you have nothing to back up your assertion.

Because it doesn't matter what I write, you are going to go on believing whatever and be wrong about it, so I am going to have a little fun with it.

[republicofdavis]

"The problem is, that the Supreme Court invented a constitutional right to homosexual sodomy."

That's not what the case they're talking about was about.

[jtminton]

Has anybody stopped to consider that this all happened 10 years ago? How many people here would stand by everything they did ten years ago?

Get a grip, folks.

[xzins]

Ann Coulter might just prove to be a great prognosticator.

She objects to Roberts due to his unknown record....says we've allowed the entire liberal wing under Republican presidents to slip in in this exact same fashion.

Hmmmmmm......

Hope she's wrong. I don't think there's any stopping these dominoes from falling.

[MikefromOhio]

whatever man...

I am selling Prozac for cheap. get it now before the Senate hearings.

[MikefromOhio]

Get a grip, folks.

FAT chance of that happening by Christmas....

[ShadowAce]

I don't think there's any stopping these dominoes from falling.

Hey--you know as well as I do the future history of this planet. It's gonna happen. Just be thankful it's all under control.

[republicofdavis]

I don't know why anyone would think that because a lawyer has a certain client in his career, or takes any certain advocacy position, that that provides any indication regarding his future judicial philosophy.

(By the way, I agree whole-heartedly with your screen name)

[jwalsh07]

So, if he did the pro bono work because he believed that Romer was a critical case that must be decided in favor of speacial rights for a class of folks, that should give one pause for thought, no?

I'm not an alarmist but I wasn't born yesterday either. Souter, Stephens and Kennedy were given to us by good Republican Presidents which means appointing Justices to the SCOTUS is a very tricky business.

Being concerned because Dubya appointed somebody with no appellate record to speak of is not abnormal, it logically follow the past 30 years of appointment history.

[Rutles4Ever]

Mike, you're hysterical now. You can't take it when someone disagrees with you, we all know that, but your version of the Republican party falls somewhere between John McCain and Arlen Specter.

[maestro]

/Theistic (Billions of Years) Jesuit Evolutionists....

'AC' is not only beautiful.....

[MikefromOhio]

i choose not to be snakebitten.

besides that fact, gay rights aren't my only qualifier.

This judge is ardently pro-life for example...

[jwalsh07]

That's not what the case they're talking about was about.

Romer gutted Bowers de facto.

[MikefromOhio]

but your version of the Republican party falls somewhere between John McCain and Arlen Specter.

ohh yeah you got me there!! LOL!!!!! Is that REALLY all you can come up with? As I said, the meltdown as begun. this is gonna be great!!!!