Edwin Meese III, Dick Thornburgh, et al.
Amici Curiae
Charles J. Cooper, Counsel of Record Edwin Meese III and Dick Thornburg are joined in this brief by four other former senior Justice Department officials. Charles J. Cooper is chair of the law firm Cooper & Kirk, where he practices constitutional, commercial, and civil rights law. He received his law degree from the University of Alabama in 1977. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Respondent as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on August 23, 2007. This case is controlled by Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon (2006) and Breard v. Greene (1998), in which theCourt held that…
