Post by Logan on May 3, 2016 6:16:06 GMT -6
Republicans plan to sue McAuliffe over order restoring rights to felons
Republican leaders in the Virginia General Assembly have hired a top conservative lawyer to guide an expected lawsuit against Gov. Terry McAuliffe's executive order that restored voting rights for 206,000 felons.
Charles J. Cooper - a former assistant attorney general under President Ronald Reagan who was once named "Republican lawyer of the year" - will lead the effort to challenge the Democratic governor's order, GOP leaders announced Monday.
“It is the obligation of the legislative and judicial branches to serve as a check on overreaches of executive power," House of Delegates Speaker William J. Howell, R-Stafford, said in a news release. "To that end, we are prepared to uphold the Constitution of Virginia and the rule of law by challenging Governor McAuliffe’s order in court."
Cooper, who defended California's ban on same-sex marriage before the United States Supreme Court in 2013, is a former partner in the D.C. office of McGuireWoods. He practices civil litigation at Cooper & Kirk PLLC, a Washington-based firm he helped found in 1996.
Read more: www.roanoke.com/news/republicans-plan-to-sue-mcauliffe-over-order-restoring-rights-to/article_3185a978-12af-5e11-a38d-a5ee55c60e39.html
Republican leaders in the Virginia General Assembly have hired a top conservative lawyer to guide an expected lawsuit against Gov. Terry McAuliffe's executive order that restored voting rights for 206,000 felons.
Charles J. Cooper - a former assistant attorney general under President Ronald Reagan who was once named "Republican lawyer of the year" - will lead the effort to challenge the Democratic governor's order, GOP leaders announced Monday.
“It is the obligation of the legislative and judicial branches to serve as a check on overreaches of executive power," House of Delegates Speaker William J. Howell, R-Stafford, said in a news release. "To that end, we are prepared to uphold the Constitution of Virginia and the rule of law by challenging Governor McAuliffe’s order in court."
Cooper, who defended California's ban on same-sex marriage before the United States Supreme Court in 2013, is a former partner in the D.C. office of McGuireWoods. He practices civil litigation at Cooper & Kirk PLLC, a Washington-based firm he helped found in 1996.
Read more: www.roanoke.com/news/republicans-plan-to-sue-mcauliffe-over-order-restoring-rights-to/article_3185a978-12af-5e11-a38d-a5ee55c60e39.html