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Roberts 'Played' for Playboy in SCOTUS Case
Human Events Online ^
| August 11, 2005
| Robert Bluey
Posted on 08/11/2005 11:56:51 AM PDT by hinterlander
Supreme Court nominee Judge John Roberts, while serving as the head of Hogan & Hartson’s appellate division, spent about a dozen hours working on behalf of Playboy Entertainment Group in a case before the Supreme Court in 1999, his former colleague told HUMAN EVENTS.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: constitution; constructionist; johnroberts; judicial; judiciary; nomination; nominee; playboy; roberts; scotus; supreme; supremecourt
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To: hinterlander
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posted on
08/11/2005 11:57:40 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
(Drool overflowed my buffer...)
To: hinterlander
Confirm this man NOW! ;o)
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posted on
08/11/2005 11:57:40 AM PDT
by
TheBigB
(Gum would be perfection!)
To: hinterlander
This doesn't bother me as much as helping the homosexuals overturning a state law that was consitutional.
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posted on
08/11/2005 11:58:16 AM PDT
by
tomahawk
(Proud to be an enemy of Islam (check out www.prophetofdoom.net))
To: hinterlander
5
posted on
08/11/2005 11:58:56 AM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: TheBigB
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posted on
08/11/2005 11:58:57 AM PDT
by
areafiftyone
(Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
To: hinterlander
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posted on
08/11/2005 11:59:19 AM PDT
by
Jaysun
(Democrats: We must become more effective at fooling people.)
To: hinterlander
I am sure there will be 20 Fox News Alerts on this shocking story of a lawyer doing work for hire.
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posted on
08/11/2005 11:59:37 AM PDT
by
IamConservative
(The true character of a man is revealed in what he does when no one is looking.)
To: hinterlander
“John, as he did with many clients at the firm, was available for advice from time to time,” Corn-Revere told HUMAN EVENTS. “In this case, he helped with moot courts in preparing me for oral argument in the case at the Supreme Court.” In other words, he helped another lawyer at his firm prepare for his case.
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posted on
08/11/2005 11:59:39 AM PDT
by
atomicpossum
(Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
To: TheBigB; All
OMG, he's pushing the hetero agenda!
;-)
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posted on
08/11/2005 11:59:40 AM PDT
by
dighton
To: dighton
Exactly my thought. If this was Ramrod Daily, nary a peep. But hot naked women! Call the UN!
To: hinterlander
The real question is, can Roberts get me into the pajama party at the Mansion?
To: tomahawk
I think that what does bother me is the following from Bluey's article:
Playboy’s case challenged the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which required cable TV operators to scramble sexually explicit content or restrict the pornography to hours when children would be unlikely to view it. Playboy won the case, 5-4, much to the consternation of conservatives. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote a biting dissent.
I think that that is a sign that Roberts might not be "in the mold of Scalia." I don't think that if Scalia were a private attorney he would have helped Playboy in any way at all.
To: hinterlander
This stuff is just pure BS. Why do some conservatives take delight in eating their own young?
To: hinterlander
Did they forfeit the fee to get paid in kind?
To: dirtboy
I won't sleep a wink tonight.
To: hinterlander
Wow, it's amazing how much the left is terrified by this guy.
If you'll notice, they are trying to split off "values conservatives" from this guy. First the gay thing and now this. If you are willing to do some checking, his wife is big in the Pro-life movement. Gee, why do you think the left is running scared?
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posted on
08/11/2005 12:03:31 PM PDT
by
trubluolyguy
(If you think that's tough, try losing a testicle in a knife fight with your mother!)
To: hinterlander
and he probably played hooky in the seventh grade and was caught smoking a cigarette behind the barn! LMAO
gezzzzzz louise!
and come September the man will be the next judge on the Supreme Court!
next...
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posted on
08/11/2005 12:04:04 PM PDT
by
kellynla
(U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
To: hinterlander
Given that the government's (weak) rationale for regulating broadcast TV does not apply to cable, a true conservative could have taken no other position.
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posted on
08/11/2005 12:04:06 PM PDT
by
steve-b
(A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
To: hinterlander
He worked for a law firm. Part of his duties were to prepare other lawyers to present their case before the supreme court.
This doesn't tell us anything about his personal views.
If anything it tells us that he isn't likely to let his personal views interfere with his duties.
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