(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.

(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.

(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.

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.

(02-09-2017 01:15 PM)Hood-rich Wrote:  http://www.scotusblog.com/2017/02/washington-attorney-charles-cooper-likely-get-nod-u-s-solicitor-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.