Roberts 'Played' for Playboy in SCOTUS Case

Human Events Online ^ | August 11, 2005 | Robert Bluey

[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.

[Paradox]

This is about all I could find to post here that wouldn't get deleted:

Props to Rintense, from where I ripped the graphic. I dont know who that actually is, but she's plenty sexy, thats for sure.

[Kenny500c]

Ann Coulter is right guys, admit and move on to a new candidate who is a true conservative, not one who is a
Souter clone.

[ConservativeDude]

"This doesn't bother me as much as helping the homosexuals overturning a state law that was consitutional."

I'm assuming he did this for pay...that is, after all, what lawyers do. If I were him, though, I wouldn't be wanting to explain how I helped the homos for free....but I sent a bill to Playboy.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Aren't you guys trying to move the goal posts?...

There were other reasons many of us voted for him also.

You would have gone with McCain?

[Modernman]

You see, it really does not matter to some people about principle or policy at all.

Let's talk about the principals of the case, then.

The case in question involved a law whereby cable providers were required to limit or control their otherwise legal programming in order to prevent children from being exposed to naked Playboy Playmates.

However, the only way cable gets into a house with children is if the parents or other adults living in such house actually order the cable.

The government was, in essence, trying to expand its power to regulate what legal products a cable company could sell to adults.

I do not see anything non-conservative about opposing such a law.

[Lekker 1]

Whoring yourself out for your law firm does not make you a good lawyer/team player, it makes you a whore.

Anybody that sells his valuable and limited hours for money is a whore. We are all whores. Did you in essence say that doing what the coach says doesn't make you you a good team player? So he should refuse to help out on a case because he has a moral disagreement with how they do business...professional ethics be damned? The DU people must be just laughing it up at how successful this Roberts smear campaign is.

[FFIGHTER]

He worked with his colleagues at the Law Firm that employed him. How dare he.

[Lekker 1]

Bingo, Modernman.

[George W. Bush]

For every "Playboy" case this guy helped on, I'm sure he also helped on an NRA case or some right-wing evangelical case.

I'd like to be just as sure as you are. Got any actual cases?

Admittedly, we haven't heard enough yet. But I'd like to hear more info, in depth, about cases he was the counsel in, arguments he made in major cases before high courts, cases where he prevailed for conservatives, etc.

[hinterlander]

You have NO idea what Justice Scalia would or would not do in private practice.

I do have an idea of Scalia's opinions of lawyers and their involvement in the culture war. From his Romer (re. Colorado/homosexuality) dissent:

When the Court takes sides in the culture wars, it tends to be with the knights rather than the villeins [a.k.a. commoners, peasants] - and more specifically with the Templars, reflecting the views and values of the lawyer class from which the Court's Members are drawn.

I also know enough about Scalia's integrity to say with 100% certainty, that if he were a partner at a law firm and was asked to help Playboy or the gay litigants in the Romer case, he would have refused.

[sharkhawk]

I want to see some of those backing Ann Coulters' view come into this case. After all she had a high profile affair with Bob Guccione Jr.

[Paradox]

The guy sounds more and more like a libertarian, which doesn't bother me too much.

[Lekker 1]

A lawyer should represent his client to the best of his ability whether they represent the liberal or conservative end of the spectrum. Are you suggesting that Mr. Roberts actually went out and solicited Playboy for their business?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Gloria Steinem used to wait tables for them.

[hinterlander]

Who wants a SCOTUS justice that will rule based on his whims or tastes, or preferences, or religious persuasion?

How about morality? A whore is a whore is a whore.

[Mo1]

[KevinDavis]

I would prefer to have a constituionist on the court than person with one extremes.. So far I like him.. Of course the cranks don't like him..

[jmc813]

I think that that is a sign that Roberts might not be "in the mold of Scalia."

In this case, that's a good thing. Cable television does not go over the public airwaves, therefor the FedGov should butt out.

[nopardons]

Miss Cleo, is that you ?

Lawyers, who work at private practiced, even partners, are NOT free to pick and choose what they'll work on or not.

But let me ask you this...do you have a T.V.? If so, do you have cable? If so, then is it the government's responsibility to determine what programs you are allowed to watch or not watch?