Latter-day Saint Solicitor General Rex Lee recuses himself from a tax case related to segregation because of his previous involvement in a case involving the Church.
- Type
- Book
- Source
- Rex E. Lee LDS
- Hearsay
- Journalism
- Reference
Lincoln Caplan, The Tenth Justice: The Solictor General and the Rule of Law (New York City, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987), 50, 53
- Scribe/Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- People
- Rex E. Lee, Lincoln Caplan
- Audience
- General Public
PDF- Transcription
When the Bob Jones brief was filed, Lawrence Wallace was Acting Solicitor General. Rex Lee, who had been sworn in as SG seven months before, had once represented the Mormon church when it faced a problem like Bob Jones's and, to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, he had taken himself off the case.* … [ p. 50]
In 1970, the Internal Revenue Service ruled that Bob Jones no longer qualified for tax-exempt status because of this segregationist policy, so the school changed it. Blacks could be accepted if they were married to other blacks, or if they promised not to date or marry outside their race. …
From the vantage point of the Solicitor General' office the legal issue in the legal issue in the Bob Jones case was routine. It was a tax question. [p. 53]
* Interviews with Rex Lee, op. cit.; Kenneth Geller, op cit.; Albert Lauber on July 30, 1985 and February 20, 1986, and Lawrence Wallace, op. cit.
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