{"id":102,"date":"2005-08-14T14:02:03","date_gmt":"2005-08-14T18:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/08\/14\/i-am-not-what-i-argue\/"},"modified":"2005-08-14T14:02:03","modified_gmt":"2005-08-14T18:02:03","slug":"i-am-not-what-i-argue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/08\/14\/i-am-not-what-i-argue\/","title":{"rendered":"I am not what I argue"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Much attention has been paid to the legal arguments that SCOTUS nominee
\nJohns Roberts made while working in Reagan’s solicitor general’s office
\n(most notably the footnote arguing for overturning Roe v. Wade in a
\nbrief) and to his pro bono “advising” of gay rights groups in the Romer v. Evans<\/a> case.  As with this NYT Week in Review piece<\/a>,
\nI believe this attention is a bit misplaced (and fueled by the scarcity
\nof opinions from his brief stint on the DC Court of Appeals). 
\nMost of the time, unless the type of case is on the extreme end of the
\nmoral repugnancy scale, lawyers are hired guns and willing to argue
\nboth sides.  While interning for the government, I’ve defended
\nchild molesters.  And in private practice, I drafted a pro-media
\nopinion piece in the MGM v. Grokster<\/a>
\ncase, and defended tenants in landlord-tenant cases (even though I
\ndon’t have any peculiar sympathies on the tenant side).  Taken out
\nof context, this could create a skewed legal portrait of me, when I
\nfeel that my heart lies with the work that I did at the EFF and Berkman
\nCenter (work that I actively sought out and completed without any
\nmonetary renumeration) and my odd fondness for the dormant commerce
\nclause.  Thus, when it comes time for my generation to step up to
\nthe judicial plate (this time will come — one of my HLS section mates
\nclerked this year for Roberts, and is clerking next year for Kennedy),
\nI say look at our non-profit work\/affiliations (to whom we donate time
\nand money) and our weblogs.<\/p>\n

Edit: I find it funny that PETA is the group that would most vehemently oppose a Judge Chan nomination. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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