NRA Shakes Up Legal Team Amid Intensifying Civil War
The Washington Post reports that the National Rifle Association shook up its legal team Thursday and severed ties with its longtime outside counsel, intensifying a civil war that has upended the influential gun rights lobby.
The group dismissed prominent Washington attorney Charles Cooper, and another outside counsel, Michael Volkov, resigned, an NRA spokesman said.
The New York Times reports that Cooper had been aligned with former NRA president Oliver North in a contest with chief executive Wayne LaPierre. Cooper had been charging the group $1,350 an hour, the Times reports.