There's nothing to it. His firm had a client; he was helping his colleagues prepare for the case. It was a case of professional courtesy.
You've got it right.
Did you see Hardball tonight the reporter from the New Yorker was on saying Harry Reid is practically gloating that Roberts is going to be like Souter in upholding liberal precedent.
Roberts told Reid that he will not ever overturn precedent unless it is a dredd scott type of case. Roberts said there has to be 7 different criteria met to overturn precedent.
In the article Reid is saying Bush choked from the pressure of the dems and bush gave into the dems.
John Roberts will not overturn any of the bad precedent that we want overturned from roe v wade to affirmative action to eminent domain.
Roberts will be conservative on rulings that haven't been before the supreme court but what hasn't been before the court before.
Roberts views the constitution as a living democracy he isn't an originalist and he puts more weight into stability in society in not wanting to overturn precedent.
Roberts is no originalist he will be just like Sandra Day O'Conner.
People that think he is going to be like Renquist are dreaming, Renquist is not so rigid in staris decis as Roberts is.
Nothing to it? Roberts choose to work for FREE and donate his time to aid the cause of homosexual rights activists. One doesn't work pro bono unless one believes in the cause.
Absolutely. In fact, it would behoove him professionally and morally to offer such help to a firm that had made him a millionaire. In addition, the fact that he did not play a large role in it is noteworthy. For all we know, he spent a couple of hours over a weekend looking over the papers and offering some technical guidance.
I guess you didn't listen to the Mark Levin Show today.
Mark is a Constitutional scholar and wrtote "Men n Black, How the Supreme Court is destroying America".
Initially very supportive of Mr. Roberts, today he said this case was a precedent setting one, one that in effect set the groundwork for homosexual marriages. He admitted this set up a red flag.
Ann COulter should change her name to Cassandra - Roberts is a liberal Trojan horse.
Homosexuals are not the problem in our society.Not all homosexuals are radical activists- and I may not agree with their lifestyle- but they are free to have it and they are free to try and get laws passed. That is the way the "cookie" crumbles.
Conservatives need to stay focused on the manipulations by the left. This story is one of them.
"There's nothing to it. His firm had a client; he was helping his colleagues prepare for the case. It was a case of professional courtesy."
That's my read on this as well. Any attorney will tell you that the client's views do not necessarily represent the attorney's views, and that any good attorney will provide a zealous case for the client.
What it looks like is that we have a nominee, who cannot be opposed by the 'Rats for any other reason than the fact that he's Conservative, and the 'Rats are on notice that that argument will NOT fly. So, here we go with the left wing media machine, trying to see what will stick...
Thanks for spelling it out.