Alito’s Career Was Boosted by Founder of Law Firm Arguing in “Moore v. Harper”

In 1985, President Ronald Reagan nominated Charles Cooper, a deputy in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, to become assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel. In need of a deputy himself, hardline conservative Cooper reached out to fellow DOJ employee and now-Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, with whom he had become friendly, and urged him to apply.

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