That's exactly the type of info I was hoping to get. All I had heard was that he was doing "his job".
I still would like additinal info. What was his reasoning. I would hate to think that this a smoke screen put up by the left to divide the conservative base.
I would have to think that his reasoning must have been that he was being a team player within the firm...which is understandable enough, especially when you are making that kind of money (and also contemplating going back into public life such that you know the opportunity to make money is limited).
His behavior is in that context quite understandable.
But it is not heroic. The heroic thing to do would have been to decline to paricipate and if pressured, to resign. I can imagine Antonin Scalia as a lawyer doing that. But he's a rare breed. I guess we have to be realists here and recognize that Roberts is a flesh and blood human being and he probably in a moment of moral weakness wanted to e a team player more than he wanted to make a firm stand. It has also occurred to me that if he HAD quit the firm over this issue, then he would likely be disqualified from ever having become a judge. In a sense, then, he was in a Catch-22. Quit the firm, AND never become a judge. Or, do the work quietly and effectively....and then repay the liberals once you are safely on the bench.
I sure hope the latter case is how it worked. I have mellowed a bit on this over the last few days, trying to see things from his perspective. It could go either way.
I guess if nothing else, that is what one is asking for by going to a large firm.