If you missed the story:
Judge John G. Roberts Jr., the Supreme Court nominee, gave advice to advocates for gay rights a decade ago, helping them win a landmark 1996 ruling protecting gay men and lesbians from state-sanctioned discrimination.
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This is highly troubling.
If Roberts had merely been doing his job as a lawyer, we wouldn't have a problem with it. But he wasn't doing his job. He was doing the work pro bono. Eric Scheske has worked at a big law firm and a little law firm. Though different firms have different attitudes toward pro bono work, it is typically voluntary. Even the firms who all-but require associates to perform pro bono work usually let the associates pick the causes they want to assist. And Roberts chose to work on a gay rights case.
Was he posturing for the Supreme Court job back then? Did he feel pressure from a partner to take that particular assignment?
Or is he going to be another judicial activist that rams gay marriage down our throats?
It's too late to turn back now, but we are concerned.
