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...York lawyer who has worked with Harper on several occasions suggested that he had been strongly influenced by one of his mentors, Cyrus R. Vance, who resigned as Secretary of State in 1980 after President Carter ordered a hostage rescue mission in Iran over Vance’s objections...
Harper’s resignation from the Corporation isn’t the first time he publicly protested his voice not being heard. As president of the New York City Bar Association in 1991, Harper published a piece in The Washington Post criticizing the first Bush administration for excluding his group from evaluations of judicial nominees...
...time for the Justice Department to live up to its name by renouncing the tactics of the bully and the methods of the tyrant,” Harper wrote. In an interview this week, he recalled that time as challenging. “We were very much at loggerheads with the Justice Department,” he said...
...Harper, 64, argued his first case before the U.S. Supreme Court just four years out of Harvard Law School as an attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in 1969. The case, Daniel v. Paul, pitted African-American residents of Little Rock, Ark., against an all-white club that had denied them membership...
...Harper won the case for the Little Rock residents. He also successfully negotiated the desegregation of the Chicago public schools in 1977, solidifying his status as a preeminent civil rights lawyer...