Editing Dan Coats (section)

===Again in private life (2005–2010)===
Coats served as co-chairman of the Washington government relations office of [[King & Spalding]].<ref name="nyt" />

In 2005, Coats drew attention when he was chosen by President George W. Bush to shepherd [[Harriet Miers]]'s failed nomination to the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] through the Senate. Echoing Senator [[Roman Hruska]]'s [[Roman Hruska#Mediocrity|famous 1970 speech]] in defense of [[Harrold Carswell]], Coats said to [[CNN]] regarding the nomination: "If [being a] great intellectual powerhouse is a qualification to be a member of the court and represent the American people and the wishes of the American people and to interpret the Constitution, then I think we have a court so skewed on the intellectual side that we may not be getting representation of America as a whole."<ref>{{Cite web|title=Transcripts: American Morning: Miers confirmation battle|url=https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/ltm/date/2005-10-07/segment/04|date=October 7, 2005|access-date=July 10, 2023|website=CNN}}</ref>

In 2007, Coats served as co-chairman of a team of lobbyists for [[Cooper Industries]], a Texas corporation that moved its principal place of business to Bermuda, where it would not be liable for U.S. taxes. In that role, he worked to block Senate legislation that would have closed a tax loophole, worth hundreds of millions of dollars to Cooper Industries.<ref name="nyt">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/us/politics/14coats.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=a23|title=A Journey From Lawmaker to Lobbyist and Back Again|first=Eric |last=Lipton|publisher=nyt.com |date= November 13, 2010|access-date=November 15, 2010}}</ref>