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To: inquest
"I must've missed the memo on that. I hardly consider lawyers obligated to donate their time to advancing points of law that they know are incorrect.'

Can't help you there since you seem to be replying to a point I didn't make. I said all people hae a right to legal representation. I never said they all had a right to free representation but if a firm is doing pro bono work and a gifted atty has particular skills in an area of the law the litigant needs there is often a good match.

One, if one is to act as an adult, one must never make the perfect the enemy of the good. John Roberts may well have represented a gay rights group. Gay people do have rights and since the particulars of this matter have only been made known in the MSM one would be ill-advised to make that the last word on the subject.

209 posted on 08/06/2005 3:46:09 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopeckne is walking around free)
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To: muir_redwoods
One, if one is to act as an adult, one must never make the perfect the enemy of the good.

I've yet to be convinced that Roberts represents the good.

John Roberts may well have represented a gay rights group.

He could have, but that's not the objection that's being raised. He's being criticized for helping prepare a case that was based on a very shoddy understanding of the law. Whose behalf he was doing it on is utterly irrelevant.

210 posted on 08/06/2005 6:59:25 AM PDT by inquest (FTAA delenda est)
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