Margaret Marshall Wasn't the First to Assure Mass. Homosexuals They'd Win if They Started Gay Marriage Here
Justice Judy Cowin Was Saying the Same to Barney Frank
            The two Cowins, Bill and Judy, had an “empty nest” at their Newton home in the 1980s with all three children gone. They wanted to “retire” with prestigious jobs as un-elected judges with lifetime appointments.
But there were problems.
             Bill was at the head of a scandal of enormous proportions in the 1980s, as a prominent Republican.
              Judy was the first judge to promise homosexuals she would help them achieve their goals. This was in exchange for the Letter of Recommendation sent by Barney Frank in 1991 for her nomination to the state's prestigious trial court, the Superior Court. 
             Bill Cowin now sits on the Appeals Court, right below the SJC, while Judy Cowin won the “brass ring” in 1999 with her appointment to the SJC.

            Judy Cowin Was Showing Her Support for Gay Marriage in 1991; As a Result She Obtained the Endorsement of Barney Frank
            Everyone knows about Margaret Marshall's assurance to the "Mass. Gay and Lesbian Bar Association" in 1999 that they would win a suit for gay marriage if they brought it in Massachusetts.
            Apparently Judy Cowin was promising the same thing. She gave $100 to Barney Frank in 1991 in return for which he sent the following Letter of Recommendation to the Governor's Council (which approves all judicial nominations) in support of her nomination to the Superior Court by Paul Cellucci:
            "Dear Members of the Council:
            "I am writing to express my enthusiastic support for the judicial nomination of Judith Cowin.
            "I have known Judith Cowin for more than 20 years, and I believe is ideally suited for the bench. She is a thoughtful, intelligent balanced individual who combines significant legal experience with very good judgement [sic] about people. Ms. Cowin has been a first rate lawyer and I am confident that she will be an equally good judge. She is precisely the sort of individual whose presence on the bench will be a benefit to all of us.
            "/s/ Barney Frank"

Pinch Sulzberger Attacks Judge Judy Cowin as a “Republican” Spy
            The defeat of John Kerry changed everything for those in favor of homosexual "marriage." Democratic pundits instantly began blaming Judge Marshall and her opinion about “gay marriage” for the loss of the Presidential election, and correctly so.
             Pinch Sulzberger immediately began backing away from his longtime friend, Judge Marshall, even though Pinch was the one who had strongly encouraged her ruling. He had put the Globe behind Marshall’s appointment as Chief Justice in 1999 so she could make the ruling.
            Both Sulzberger and Marshall were terribly shaken (as was the entire Democratic Party) by the election with its rejection of John Kerry and its endorsement of amendments across the country to ban “gay marriage.” Evidence of Sulzberger’s panic came almost immediately on Saturday, Nov. 13, 2004 (because he was terrified he and the Times would be blamed) when a strange article about Judy Cowin appeared in the Globe, by his columnist Alex Beam. Here’s the beginning paragraph in its entirety:
            “I am a great fan of micro-history; if you want to call it gossip, you won't offend me in the least. I was intrigued to learn that, after all the crocodile tears were shed for John Kerry's wrenching electoral loss, the name on everyone's lips was not Margaret Marshall, but . . . Judith Cowin.”
            Judy Cowin had made the vote for gay marriage a 3-3 tie among the Associate Justices on the SJC and thus allowed Chief Justice Marshall to move forward on the scheme to impose “gay marriage” on the country. After Marshall voted, this gave her a very slim 4-3 decision. (Atty. Pawlick warned Marshall personally in open court twice in 2002-2003 not to do that or she would suffer wrath from the citizens.)
            The three judges who were against Marshall (all Massachusetts liberals) were unusually passionate in their opposition, saying that she had no rightful power to do this.  But that was kept quiet by the Times/Globe empire of Sulzberger and the rest of the compliant media, including the Associated Press in which the Sulzbergers are very active at the national level. As far as they’re concerned, this was a unanimous decision written by the “courageous civil rights activist,” Judge Margaret Marshall.

       What Did the Globe Columnist Write about Judge Cowin?
            The article by columnist Alex Beam about Judge Cowin was totally incoherent. Beam's second paragraph said that some people were saying that Marshall's decision was the reason for the tremendous defeat of John Kerry. But we realize that the primary instigator and the true villain among all Democrats was the New York Times and its inept, bungling Chairman. By what strange reason does Sulzberger believe he can get out of this if he blames Judy Cowin?
            The next paragraph of his compliant columnist began: “What about Justice Cowin?” Well, what about Judy Cowin?!? She's a registered Republican who was characterized by the Globe as a “conservative” when she was appointed in 1999. Should we believe that Judy Cowin voted for gay marriage just to hurt the Democrats?
            That's how the article ended --- with total incoherence.

            Judge Marshall Came Out of Seclusion to Protect Herself from Pinch Sulzberger
            Judge Marshall came out of seclusion on the day that the Beam column ran. She had refused to discuss the issue --- either before or after her ruling --- except during an Oral Argument on March 4, 2003, where Mary Bonauto for the plaintiffs and Judith Yogman for the state, had a little over 15 minutes apiece, to discuss the most significant case in the history of the SJC. The total time allowed by Marshall for both was 37 minutes and 11 seconds.
            The only other lawyer who ever addressed the SJC on this issue was Atty. Ed Pawlick for Mass. Citizens for Marriage. He appeared before the Court four times during that period, two times before a Single Justice and two times before all the Justices, including Chief Justice Marshall. Many observers believe it was his four appearances that finally spurred the three dissenters to action. 
            On the day that the Beam column ran, Monday, Nov. 15, 2004, Chief Justice Marshall talked to A.P. reporter Jennifer Peters in an attempt to rehabilitate herself. But it was a disaster for Marshall as Peters reported every word instead of trying to protect Marshall.
            According to Peters: “Marshall said she welcomes scrutiny of the court and said the ability of the public to criticize its decisions is one of the great hallmarks of an independent judiciary in a healthy democracy. ‘I think judges play an important constitutional role, and the label that somebody puts onto that is one that varies from time to time. I think as long as I'm not viewed as a lazy judge,’ [sic] she said. ‘I - like, I think, 350 other judges - do the best they can to uphold the constitution, and the statutes and the common law in this commonwealth,’ she said, ‘and then we move on to the next case.’”
            Jennifer Peters was removed from reporting shortly thereafter. The Associated Press is a cooperative owned by the newspapers of the country, with the New York Times being the most prominent and influential member. The owners of the Times sit on all the national boards of A.P. and control it at every level.  
            The lead lawyer in the homosexual “marriage” case, Mary Bonauto from GLAD, also attempted to assist Judge Marshall. She wrote a column in the Globe (Tuesday, Nov. 9) in which she revealed she is also receiving flack from “national Democrats” for causing the debacle to John Kerry.  

            Husband Bill's Scandals Never End
            According to the Globe, Bill Cowin's troubles began when he was "a Republican wunderkind” in the 1960s and 1970s.
            He was called the "Deputy Governor" when he was Commissioner of Administration and Finance for the rich Brahmin Governor from Dover, Frank Sargent, from November 1972 to May 1974 and was commonly called the Deputy Governor. He ran unsuccessfully for attorney general in 1974 and was the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor in 1978 at the same time that John Kerry used that position to begin his climb toward the Presidency.
            But that all went “down the drain” when Bill was implicated in a huge scandal while serving in the Sargent administration.
            Bill's scandal surfaced in 1978, when two state senators were convicted of taking bribes from a firm that was doing work at UMass/Boston. After sensational public hearings, the Chairman of an investigating Commission, John William Ward, who resigned as President of Amherst College in order to spend fulltime investigating wrote: "Corruption has been a way of life. For a decade at least, across Republican and Democratic administrations alike, the way to get architectural contracts was to buy them.”
             Bill Cowin was at the heart of this enormous scandal. Although he was only one of four Deputy Governors during the period, he had the bad luck to be in charge when the scandal broke. The consequences were disastrous for Cowin and the state. Of $17 billion spent in public construction, $7.73 billion was for projects that had major defects, according to the Globe. The cost to taxpayers to fix the damage was estimated in 1980 at $2.12 billion. This included dozens of public buildings and even a baseball field at Bridgewater State College where ballplayers had to run uphill to reach first base.

Both Cowins Recovered; Memories of Fraud Faded after Twenty Years
             After twenty-years of practicing law, Bill faded into the background. He was never indicted nor was anyone else. The next year he was censured by the SJC for allowing a client to make a false statement under oath and for failing to correct the falsehood.
            But he did not forget how nice it would be to become a judge. He knew the pay would be good with excellent retirement benefits. The workload is minimal.
             Indeed, he came bounding back as soon as Judy became a Justice on the SJC. He was quickly appointed by Gov. Cellucci on Dec. 21, 2000, to the prestigious Appeals Court which handles the overflow from the SJC. The court was created in the 1970s to relieve the pressure on the SJC, thus in effect adding 27 more judges to the 7 who are on the SJC. This new court made a wonderful home to reward 27 former politicians.
            When Bill Cowin arrived at his nomination hearing before the Governor’s Council on January 11, 2001, he was not alone. He was accompanied by his prestigious wife, SJC Justice Judith Cowin and the entire family. The Globe noted the importance of that bit of theater with this: “As he [William Cowin] mounted his first public defense [of his involvement in the scandal of twenty-years ago] his wife, Judith Cowin, a Supreme Judicial Court associate justice, and other family members looked on.”
             It was noted by many that Bill never mentioned on his resume the scandal about the baseball field that went uphill when he applied for the Appeals Court position.

        Judy's Employment
            Although Judy graduated from prestigious Wellesley College in 1963 when everyone was seeking qualified women for college or employment, she did not attend law school until 1967, possibly taking time to become a mother. She was apparently not accepted at Harvard Law School in 1967 and had to settle for George Washington Law School. After a year there, she was admitted to Harvard Law School from which she graduated in 1970.
            She also held the following positions during and after graduation from Wellesley:
            -- Summer 1961. College trainee, J. Walter Thompson Advertising              Agency, N.Y.
            -- Summer 1962. Asst. Legislative Asst., Sen. Ernest Gruening              D- Alaska.
            -- Fall of 1963 to March 1964, Intern for Sen. Kennedy.
            -- May 1964 to July 1965, Research Asst., Dept. of Atty. General,              Boston.
            -- July 1965 to Dec. 1966. Supervisor, Collections, Dept of Atty.              General, Boston.
            -- Summer 1969. Legal Intern, Bingham, Dana & Gould.
            -- 1971-1972 Asst. to Legal Counsel, Mass. Dept of Mental Health.
            Judy got her first fulltime job, working for the Chief Justice of the District Courts from February 1972 until April 1974 when she left, to return again in January 1975. She was employed at the District Court until July 1979.
            She then went to work for District Attorney Bill Delahunt, Norfolk County, while supervising and teaching third-year Harvard Law School students in prosecuting criminal jury-cases.
            She began fulltime work for Delahunt in 1980 and worked there until appointed to the Superior Court by Paul Cellucci in 1991.

            Political Contributions by Cowins
            These are the political contributions that were reported by the Cowins. We will never know if there were more. These were all made by Bill.

             When Judy started her campaign, she gave minimal amounts to Republicans but only to those who were running for Governor. (The Governor appoints all the judges.)  Judy gave much more of her money to important Democrats than she did to Republicans. It’s interesting that Judy is still touted as a Republican when it is convenient.
             Bill had been making political contributions to any politicians who could help him, without any thought to ideology. The only question he had was whether the politician could, and would, help him achieve his goal. With Gov. Bill Weld as a friendly neighbor, the Cowins began to get serious.
            Sure, there are many judges who work very hard but one doesn’t have to be like them, particularly if you’re a judge in an important court with plenty of prestige, clerks and court officers to bow and scrape.
             As a result of this scandal, Bill quickly faded from view even though he was never indicted. In 1988, he gave $25 to the Mass. Republican Party and $5 to the town Republican Club, but the insignificant amounts showed his loss of enthusiasm for that Party.