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Joe Pitt's Role In The American Justice System

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Joe Pitt is a Mormon lawyer and a closeted homosexual who is presented as a naïve believer in the ideology of the Right. Likewise, he is an ardent believer in the American Justice system and its set of laws which you must not violate, or else, you will pay. At one point, Roy tells him: “Transgress a little, Joseph. . . There are so many laws; find one to break” (Kushner 2011: 116). When he is offered a job in the Justice Department in Washington, DC, he proclaims to his wife Harper:
America has re-discovered itself. Its sacred position among nations. And people aren't ashamed of that like they used to be. [...] The truth restored. Law restored. That's what President Reagan's done, Harper. Truth exists and can be spoken proudly. [...] I need

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