Trump’s adviser
Bowers, who has worked on high-profile voting and election matters, represented former South Carolina Governor
Bowers didn’t immediately return a phone call or email seeking comment.
Senator
Minority Leader
Graham said he supported the proposed delay.
“The president was shut out in the House so his team needs some time to prepare,” Graham told reporters.
Graham also said he’s spoken to Trump.
Trump “looks forward to getting this behind him,” Graham said. Trump, he said, “believes this is unconstitutional and damages the presidency, but you know he’s going to have his day in court and that’s the way the system works.”
Bowers, of Columbia, South Carolina, is known for defending North Carolina’s controversial voter-ID legislation as well as the state’s so-called bathroom bill in a lawsuit with the Obama administration. That law, which targeted transgender residents, was settled after a boycott of the state by businesses and sporting events. Bowers also served as Special Counsel for Voting Matters at the U.S. Justice Department during President
Bowers represented Sanford before a South Carolina House impeachment committee. Sanford had rejected a call from the state’s House speaker to resign amid a probe into his expenditures after his affair with a woman in Argentina was revealed. When the committee voted not to proceed with impeachment, Sanford finished his second term as governor.
Sanford narrowly lost a 2018 primary after Trump endorsed his opponent and tweeted on election day that the lawmaker was “nothing but trouble.” Sanford went on to run a brief and unsuccessful primary campaign against Trump in 2019.
Trump was represented by former White House counsel
(Corrects name of Butch Bowers in first deck headline.)
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