Book: Lawyer who defended Calif. gay marriage ban plans daughter’s gay wedding
The conservative lawyer who defended California’s ban on gay marriage at the Supreme Court is at work on another project: planning his daughter’s upcoming same-sex wedding ceremony.
Charles J. Cooper, a former top official in the Reagan Justice Department and onetime “Republican lawyer of the year,” learned of his daughter’s sexual orientation during the legal battle over California’s Proposition 8, according to journalist Jo Becker’s soon-to-be-released book chronicling the movement to legalize same-sex marriage.
Ashley Lininger became engaged to a woman identified in the book only as Casey just after the Supreme Court accepted the Proposition 8 case in December 2012. Cooper, a noted Supreme Court practitioner, argued the case in March 2013.
The court ruled against Cooper’s clients, saying they did not have legal standing to challenge a federal district judge’s ruling that the ban was unconstitutional. Same-sex marriages then resumed in the nation’s most populous state.
In its limited ruling, the court sidestepped Cooper’s argument that there is no constitutional right to same-sex marriage and that decisions about whether to allow such unions should be left to the states and voters.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/book-lawyer-who-defended-calif-gay-marriage-ban-is-now-planning-daughters-gay-wedding/2014/04/17/ad06278c-c5c0-11e3-bf7a-be01a9b69cf1_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost
A quick glance at the DU archives show this Cooper character is has about as evil and nutty political background as anyone...Either way, it's good to see him get dragged kicking and screaming into the modern era...
