If GOP super-lawyer Paul Clement isn’t such a bad guy, why does he keep defending bad guys?

GOP super lawyer Paul Clement needs a hug.

Everyone is being mean to him.  And he's not a bad guy, really.  Sure he's making millions defending the anti-gay DOMA law, the anti-Latino Arizona immigration law, and the anti-black South Carolina voter ID law.  By why define a lawyer by the cases he picks, Clement argues.  The law is about all sides getting a robust defense in court, he says.

Then why is it that Paul Clement keeps choosing to defend the bad guys?

Today we learn that Clement will be arguing the constitutionality of health care reform before the Supreme Court.  Guess which side he's taking.

It would be interesting to ask Attorney General Eric Holder, the White House, and Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan - all of whom rose to Clement's defense when he was criticized for taking the DOMA case - why their upstanding friend keeps choosing cases that hurt people.