Cooper has become a cause célèbre of liberal lawyers like Lanny J. Davis, Hollywood movie stars, Marxist groups like the International Action Center, and now The New York Times
In a story about the unsavory clients of former Clinton White House official Lanny J. Davis, The New York Times found a silver lining—his “clearly altruistic causes” included “the death-row inmate in California, Kevin Cooper, whom he has been helping, on a pro bono basis, to try to get clemency from the governor.”