office and the justice department who objected, who didn t want anything to do with defending the racial dating ban but the reagan administration took this radical line on it and took it all the way to the supreme court and when it got to the supreme court they got destroyed. the court ruled against the reagan administration and racist bob jones university by a vote of 8-1. anthony lieu lewis wrote in the york times the 8-1 decision was worse than an embarrassment for president reagan and his lawyers, it was a humiliation. how couldn t president be given such incompetent legal advice? how could lawyers for the u.s. government stray so far from the mainstream of the country s understanding of the racial issue? how a president at this stage in our history could play with this kind of an issue for political reasons. one troubling aspect about the bob jones affair is what it says about the justice department today. an attorney general is supposed to protect his president, not
government stray so far from the mainstream of the country s understanding of the racial issue? how a president at this stage in our history could play with this kind of an issue for political reasons. one troubling aspect about the bob jones affair is what it says about the justice department today. an attorney general is supposed to protect his president, not embarrass him. but in this case, a band of young zealots in the justice department pressed for the legal switch to give bob jones its tax exemption. then the times goes ahead and names the young zealots in the justice department that had pushed for this radical ruling that was so disastrous at the supreme court. among the names he gives is a justice department lawyer named charles cooper. better known as chuck cooper. chuck cooper got actually promoted in the reagan administration after the bob jones did sast. within a few years he was assistant attorney general and by then he was appearing on the nightly news himself as the
our history could play with this kind of an issue for political reasons. one troubling aspect about the bob jones affair is what it says about the justice department today. an attorney general is supposed to protect his president, not embarrass him. but in this case, a band of young zealots in the justice department pressed for the legal switch to give bob jones its tax exemption. then the times goes ahead and names the young zealots in the justice department that had pushed for this radical ruling that was so disastrous at the supreme court. among the names he gives is a justice department lawyer named charles cooper. better known as chuck cooper. chuck cooper got actually promoted in the reagan administration after the bob jones did sast. within a few years he was assistant attorney general and by then he was appearing on the nightly news himself as the administration s point man on another charming case that has aged real well. in washington, the justice department released an