Quote Originally Posted by desslock
To address your very nice writings - I just don't find a big problem with Roberts. He seems like a moderate conservative. That's about it. And the fact that he played a big part in a landmark gay rights case shows he's got good senses. The bad things I was looking for in an appointee are idealogues like Robert Bork, or a politician who would be inclined to let the Legislative Branch pass laws willy nilly.
I obviously find a problem with his views in this particular case. We can't judge a man on one writing, or two. Who he was at the time he wrote those docs to Reagan is what I find disturbing. He could be different now.

I'm glad he worked on the Gay rights case as well. From what I've read he did his job well. We don't know the circumstances with him being on the case. What if nobody else in the law firm was available, and he was the only one and begrudgingly worked on the case with the stipulation of not working on the arguments and opinions of the case? That's a worst-case scenario and since we don't know the circumstances we can only speculate. I wrote essays in college on topics I didn't agree with, but I did a damn good job because that was my assignment. We cannot say that he's automatically sympathetic towards our community just because he worked on one case as an employee of a law firm.

In the end it's all speculation and conjecture with him, which I find disturbing.