Harper, confirmed on a 52-42 party-line vote, has been active in human rights and civil rights organizations. He was also a mega-bundler, having raised more than $500,000 for President Obamaโs 2012 campaign.
Harper was one of the plaintiffsโ lawyers in a long-running class-action lawsuit by Native Americans, who claimed that the federal government had mismanaged Indian trust accounts. The Obama administration settled the suit in 2009 for $3.4 billion. BY AL KAMEN – June 3 at 5:20 pm The Washington Post
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