As the leader of the Lawyers Chapter of the Pittsburgh Federalist Society, Porter held a number of events on eye-raising topics. For one of those events, he invited the president of the Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO), Roger Clegg, to address the chapter. CEO is a right-wing legal group that is anti-immigrant, anti-affirmative action, and is even against bilingual education.
Clegg and CEO fought hard to eliminate Section 5 protection of the Voting Rights Act (that required a number of mostly southern states to pre-clear changes to their voting laws with the Justice Department to ensure they did not have any discriminatory purpose or effect) even going so far as to file numerous amicus briefs the case that ended up before the Supreme Court.
Clegg and CEO go even further with their anti-affirmative action stance, arguing that there is no good educational benefits to having ethnic and racial diversity in a classroom:
