In case you don't know who t his guy is, he is an old friend of Sessions from Alabama.

He once argued during the Reagan Administration to allow Bob Jones University to continue an interracial relationships ban.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/chuck-cooper-...21716.html



You can't make this stuff up.


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I dont know anything about him, but if you are so butthurt over his selection, I'm probably going to be good with him.

(02-09-2017 12:33 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  I dont know anything about him, but if you are so butthurt over his selection, I'm probably going to be good with him.

I'm not butthurt at all. I'm not even surprised by it. I'm simply putting it out there so that no one ( at least in this forum) says that they didn't know if things start to change in a drastic way.

Let me just say it again so that it sinks in since you seem to be "good with him".

He once argued to allow a ban on interracial relationships.

(02-09-2017 12:33 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  I dont know anything about him, but if you are so butthurt over his selection, I'm probably going to be good with him.

Ditto. And if Tom and John start posting thread after thread on him, I'll know he is a great pick.

(02-09-2017 12:42 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(02-09-2017 12:33 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  I dont know anything about him, but if you are so butthurt over his selection, I'm probably going to be good with him.

I'm not butthurt at all. I'm not even surprised by it. I'm simply putting it out there so that no one ( at least in this forum) says that they didn't know if things start to change in a drastic way.

Let me just say it again so that it sinks in since you seem to be "good with him".

He once argued to allow a ban on interracial relationships.

Was it the law when he argued for the ban?

Based on a quick scan of his wikipedia page (yeah, I know) he looks solid to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_J._Cooper

He was named by The National Law Journal as one of the 10 best civil litigators in Washington.
A member of the Republican Party, Cooper started working in 1981 in the Office of Civil Rights in Washington, DC.

http://www.scotusblog.com/2017/02/washin...r-general/

Quote:well-liked and well-respected Washington lawyer who served in the Reagan administration, to serve as the U.S. solicitor general. Cooper is perhaps best known for his defense of California’s Proposition 8, which barred same-sex marriage in that state.

He graduated first in his class from the University of Alabama Law School

In 1981, he joined the Reagan administration by taking a job in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice; four years later, he became the head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel.

Cooper also signed a brief on behalf of the federal government supporting Bob Jones University in its challenge to the constitutionality of an Internal Revenue Service policy denying tax exemptions to religious institutions that discriminate based on race.

For the judicially slow-minded it should be noted that legal defense is not the same thing as endorsing a particular accusation or behavior.

Withdrew from consideration. Bob Jones probably killed his chances. Sessions will appoint Mr. Kellyanne Conway (her husband) to be solicitor general.

(02-09-2017 01:15 PM)Hood-rich Wrote:  http://www.scotusblog.com/2017/02/washin...r-general/

Quote:well-liked and well-respected Washington lawyer who served in the Reagan administration, to serve as the U.S. solicitor general. Cooper is perhaps best known for his defense of California’s Proposition 8, which barred same-sex marriage in that state.

He graduated first in his class from the University of Alabama Law School

In 1981, he joined the Reagan administration by taking a job in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice; four years later, he became the head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel.

Cooper also signed a brief on behalf of the federal government supporting Bob Jones University in its challenge to the constitutionality of an Internal Revenue Service policy denying tax exemptions to religious institutions that discriminate based on race.

For the judicially slow-minded it should be noted that legal defense is not the same thing as endorsing a particular accusation or behavior.

Yep. Hillary got a rapist off (the double entendres is that she had a kid with one too but I digress). That was her job. Not her belief system.