SCOTT KELLER, SOLICITOR GENERAL OF TEXAS: And he is a fellow state solicitor general.
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Served as solicitor general in Montana and Nevada, and as assistant solicitor general in Texas.
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Clement served under Bush first as principal deputy solicitor general and then solicitor general, chiefly responsible for representing the U.S. government before the supreme court.
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Gambia's solicitor general said a commission of inquiry would be set up next month to decide the fate of the assets, Solicitor General Cherno Marenah told Reuters.
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Solicitor General pick: Trump announced Tuesday he will nominate acting Solicitor General Noel Francisco for the role, which argues on behalf of the U.S. before the Supreme Court.
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He kept invoking "lawful presence" as a spear to poke at Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr., challenging the solicitor general on the use of the phrase deep in the government's reply brief.
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Ted Cruz was solicitor general of Texas at the time.
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That said, the next Solicitor General is still a mystery.
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Ed Kneedler, a Deputy Solicitor General, is a national treasure.
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Deputy Solicitor General Michael Dreeben has also joined Mueller's team.
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Francisco has been serving as the administration's acting solicitor general.
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He served as chief deputy to the U.S. solicitor general.
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Instead, it lists Edwin Kneedler, the other deputy solicitor general.
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Talley first worked as Alabama's deputy solicitor general under Sen.
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Clerked for Justice Thomas and served as Colorado solicitor general.
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As Virginia solicitor general Toby Heytens insisted that Miller v.
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Cox had been the solicitor general in the Kennedy administration.
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In 19933, President Lyndon Johnson named him US Solicitor General.
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"The Solicitor General, a former federal prosecutor and former Acting U.S. Solicitor General, who presumably knows whether or not the relevant information can be safeguarded, has remained unresponsive on this critical issue," David wrote.
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Loren AliKhan, DC's solicitor general, argued first for DC and Maryland.
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First up at the podium was Noel Francisco, the solicitor-general.
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Solicitor General Robert Bork, yes, that Robert Bork, then fired Cox.
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Cox was eventually fired by then-US Solicitor General Robert Bork.
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He ultimately filled the vacancy with then-Solicitor General Elena Kagan.
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The solicitor general, Robert Bork, finally agreed to do Nixon's bidding.
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Clerked for Justice Kennedy and served as solicitor general of Ohio.
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Justice Stephen Breyer pressed that question on Deputy Solicitor General Wall.
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Mr. Katyal was an acting solicitor general in the Obama administration.
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The night ended with Cox's firing by Solicitor General Robert Bork.
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That rejection by the court did not stop the solicitor general.
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The solicitor general rarely argues that a federal statute is unconstitutional.
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Mr. Katyal was an acting solicitor general under President Barack Obama.
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On its face that is odd as VanDyke has served as the solicitor general of not one but two states in the Ninth Circuit and as assistant solicitor general of a state in the neighboring Fifth Circuit.
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And some Republicans have brought up similar concerns as the solicitor general.
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The Bush consigliere advised the young solicitor general to bide his time.
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He is Deputy Solicitor General at the office of Alabama's Attorney General.
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He is Deputy Solicitor General at the office of Alabama's Attorney General.
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Addressing Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. during the argument on Feb.
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That left solicitor general Bork in charge — and Bork did the deed.
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Mr. Cruz also served under Mr. Perry as the state's solicitor general.
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Solicitor General Don Verrilli to concede that the ACA regulations that allow
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Mr. Katyal is a former acting solicitor general and a law professor.
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Obama instead chose his solicitor general, Elena Kagan, for the open seat.
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As Texas [solicitor general], I handled far too many child sexual assaults.
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The court granted Solicitor General Noel Francisco's request to stay the Sept.
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Ted Olson, a former solicitor general and the victor of Bush v.
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Solicitor General Robert Bork fired Cox, but the investigation did not end.
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"Lamentably, Delcídio doesn't have credibility," José Eduardo Cardozo, Brazil's solicitor general, said.
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Stuart A. Raphael, the state's solicitor general, said that was not so.
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A former Texas solicitor general, Ted Cruz, did the same in 2011.
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Mr. Shapiro was Deputy Solicitor General of the United States (1981-83).
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As acting solicitor general, he represented the government before the Supreme Court.
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Damages has been injected into this case because of the solicitor general.
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President Nixon had the solicitor general, Robert H. Bork, fire Mr. Cox.
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And now the plum job -- that of solicitor general -- is up for grabs.
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With her gone, the next person in line is Solicitor General Noel Francisco.
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Elizabeth Prelogar, an assistant solicitor general, is another appeals lawyer on the team.
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Malcolm Stewart, the deputy solicitor general, faced attacks from nearly the entire bench.
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US Solicitor General Noel Francisco, who was confirmed to that position on Sept.
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Solicitor General Noel Francisco asked the Supreme Court Monday to delay a Nov.
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Solicitor General Noel Francisco is seeking a one-month extension until June 25.
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Solicitor General Donald Verrilli has urged the high court to take the case.
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Foremost among these is Noel J. Francisco, President Trump's nominee for Solicitor General.
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"Most of the paper trails are available," Gambia's Solicitor General Cherno Marenah said.
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Solicitor General Jose C. Calida declined to comment on both annulment and divorce.
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Before that, he was the United States solicitor general and a federal judge.
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I spent five and a half years as the solicitor-general of Texas.
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But Maryland Solicitor General Steven Sullivan argued against using partisan intent as standard.
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Served as deputy solicitor general in Texas and as a lawyer to Gov.
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Noel J. Francisco, now the solicitor general, argued in that case, Zubik v.
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He did, however, serve as acting solicitor general as Trump conducted his search.
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The solicitor general acknowledged the uptick in illegal border crossings in Monday's filing.
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The Russia investigation would be overseen by the solicitor general, Noel J. Francisco.
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The district court's analysis, solicitor-general Noel Francisco told the justices, is "meritless".
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Paul D. Clement, who served as solicitor general in the administration of President George W. Bush, and Neal K. Katyal, who served as acting solicitor general in the Obama administration, took up the subject in the Harvard Law Review last year.
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But the Solicitor General went a step further than just reciting old case law.
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Solicitor General Noel Francisco asked the justices to permit the policy to go forward.
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And if Rosenstein leaves, the spotlight would likely turn to Solicitor General Noel Francisco.
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CORRECTION: This story has been updated to correctly identify Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall.
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Donald Verrilli: Solicitor general of the United States, aka gay marriage hero, Obamacare defender.
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Solicitor General Donald Verrilli has served in the Justice Department post since June 29.
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When Solicitor General Noel Francisco took to the podium a little past 10 a.m.
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On June 24th she will be succeeded by Vera Baird, a former solicitor-general.
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Conway, who is of Filipino descent, would be the first Asian-American solicitor general.
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She is on leave from that position and is serving as Illinois solicitor general.
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Look for Paul Clement, a former solicitor general, who might be one of them.
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The Solicitor General represents the US government in major cases argued before the Court.
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In Kagan's case, her solicitor general records likely would have held limited probative value.
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" Former Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, called it "a sad moment" and "impossible to believe.
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Starr argued 36 cases before the Supreme Court, including 85033 cases as solicitor general.
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Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco responded that such pressure would not always be effective.
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"At best, DACA is legally questionable," Solicitor General Noel Francisco argued in legal briefs.
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Paul Clement, the former U.S. solicitor general who argued Martoma's appeal, declined to comment.
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Solicitor general Engku Nor Faizah Engku Atek said that the investigation would be closed.
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Robert Bork, the solicitor general, complied with the president's order to fire Mr. Cox.
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I'm not sure that the solicitor general will be all that unhappy about that.
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The Justice Department, in a brief signed by Solicitor General Robert H. Bork, disagreed.
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Katyal served as acting solicitor general in the Justice Department under President Barack Obama.
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Former Alabama Solicitor General Kevin Newsom is another recently confirmed judge on the list.
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An earlier version of this article misspelled the surname of a former solicitor general.
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Texas Solicitor General Scott Keller argued that the language of the plan is problematic.
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"The (solicitor general) cannot be faulted for responding to the new circumstances," McConnell said.
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Solicitor General Robert H. Bork, serving as acting attorney general in their absence, fired Cox.
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Colorado's two senators introduced Gorsuch, as did Neal Katyal -- a former Obama acting solicitor general.
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He was initially tapped to serve as Principal Deputy Solicitor General for the United States.
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In 1992 I worked for the Office of Solicitor General in the Department of Justice.
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Former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson will not be lobbying on behalf of the kingdom.
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"Racial bias is a real problem," Assistant Solicitor General Rachel P. Kovner told the justices.
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Epic is represented by Hogan Lovells partner Neal Katyal, a former acting U.S. solicitor general.
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Curiously enough, Cruz once argued as Texas Solicitor General that sex toys weren't a right.
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Scott Keller, the Texas solicitor-general, insisted that legislators had women's best interests at heart.
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In the end, Nixon's solicitor general, Robert Bork, did the president's bidding and fired Cox.
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Solicitor General Robert Bork eventually fired Cox; days later, Leon Jaworski was named special prosecutor.
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"There is not an international problem here," Deputy Solicitor General Michael Dreeben told the justices.
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The country's solicitor general Dayo Apata told Reuters that the government would appeal the decision.
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Malcolm Stewart, the Justice Department's deputy solicitor general, is scheduled to participate in Wednesday's arguments.
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If Rosenstein was fired under such circumstances, Solicitor General Noel Francisco would take his place.
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She had served as United States solicitor general and as dean of Harvard Law School.
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Charles Fried is the former solicitor general of the United States for President Ronald Reagan.
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But Ruckelshaus also refused and resigned, and eventually then-solicitor general Robert Bork fired Cox.
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The firings elevated then-Solicitor General Robert Bork to the head of the Justice Department.
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Solicitor General Noel Francisco and an attorney representing Seila Law will present the other side.
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Clerked for former Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter and served as Alabama solicitor general.
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"How often has the [Solicitor General] declined to defend legislation adopted by Congress," she queried.
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In 1992, I worked for the Office of Solicitor General in the Department of Justice.
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Maybe the chief justice and Justice Kavanaugh simply found Solicitor General Francisco's hyperbolic rhetoric unpersuasive.
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The solicitor general argues cases on behalf of the federal government before the Supreme Court.
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Mr. Pappas, 36, is an assistant solicitor general in Phoenix for the State of Arizona.
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Four years later, he left that bench to become solicitor general in LBJ's Justice Department.
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Former U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson also turned down an offer to join the team.
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If Rosenstein departs, Solicitor General Noel Francisco would take over supervision of the Russia probe.
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United States, five years ago because she had previously handled the case as solicitor general.
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In 1992 I worked for the office of solicitor general in the department of justice.
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Historically, when the Court calls for the views of the Solicitor General, it almost always then hears the case—according to Wallach, in each of the last 123 times the Solicitor General has recommended for the Court to grant certiorari, the Court has done so.
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Worked in the Office of the Solicitor General during the George W. Bush and Obama administrations.
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This morning, officials announced state solicitor general Barbara Underwood will step in as his temporary replacement.
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"You made a clear requirement to the government," said Katyal, a former acting US solicitor general.
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That left Robert Bork, the solicitor general, as the highest-ranking official in the Justice Department.
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Barbara Underwood, the state's solicitor general, will serve in the state's AG role after Schneiderman's resignation.
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A wedding cake is "not an ordinary baked good", Jeffrey Wall, the acting solicitor general, writes.
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The company has retained former US Solicitor General Seth Waxman to defend it in this case.
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The Republicans did not seek documents from her time in the Obama administration as solicitor general.
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This story has been updated to state Michael Mongan is the deputy solicitor general of California.
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Solicitor General Robert Bork ultimately fired Cox, completing what became known as the Saturday Night Massacre.
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He was preciously at Vinson & Elkins and is a former assistant to the U.S. solicitor general.
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The third-ranking Justice Department official, Solicitor General Robert Bork, obeyed Nixon's order to fire Cox.
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Former Solicitor General Donald Verrilli has joined Munger Tolles & Olson to open its new Washington office.
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During that same time, the court granted 252 of 253 such motions from the solicitor general.
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Eid previously served as Colorado's Solicitor General and taught at the University of Colorado's law school.
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And what is there to say about Solicitor General Noel Francisco's argument for the Trump administration?
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After working in George W. Bush's Justice Department, he succeeded Ted Cruz as Texas solicitor general.
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The brief was filed by Walter Dellinger, who was acting solicitor general in the Clinton administration.
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The former solicitor general of Michigan, Bursch represented Harris Funeral Homes before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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The Trump administration, represented by Solicitor General Noel Francisco, has filed a brief siding with Virginia.
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Mr. Starr, 73, has held many high-profile national posts, including solicitor general and independent counsel.
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NOEL J. FRANCISCO, THE SOLICITOR GENERAL: It's up to the executive branch to set it up.
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Solicitor General Robert Bork assumed the role of acting attorney general and complied with Nixon's demand.
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Donald Verrilli, the former U.S. solicitor general representing the studios, was not immediately available for comment.
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As solicitor general, he won 14 of the 19 cases he argued for the federal government.
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In 1992, I worked for the Office of the Solicitor General in the Department of Justice.
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Finally it fell to the solicitor general, Bork, to carry out the order, which he did.
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Now, according to the Justice Department's line of succession, Solicitor General Robert Bork was in charge.
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Another email, dated December 9, 2010 — about three years before Kagan said the Court had not "gotten to" email — from former Solicitor General Neal Katyal to Kagan, requested her input about where to hang her portrait in the conference room of the Office of Solicitor General.
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The next in the chain of command was Robert Bork, the Solicitor General of the United States.
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The argument may seem unsurprising coming from Katyal, who's a Democrat and was President Obama's solicitor general.
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Jeffrey Wall, the acting solicitor-general, calls this judgment "extraordinary" and "remarkable", and not as a compliment.
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Rising to challenge the House's standing—or eligibility—to appeal was Toby Heytens, Virginia's new solicitor-general.
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The Solicitor General and the AARP have both weighed in on behalf of the former fire fighters.
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In Thursday's court filings, Acting Solicitor General Jeff Wall wrote that all the boxes have been checked.
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Mueller has several other highly experienced lawyers on his team, including U.S. Deputy Solicitor General Michael Dreeben.
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He's well qualified, and argued before the Court when he served as the Solicitor General of Texas.
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And apparently you can call the attorney general or the solicitor general "General" in a legal proceeding.
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Another former solicitor general, Ted Olson, who has argued several cases before the court including Bush v.
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Judge Michael Daly Hawkins asked Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall for an update on the President's views.
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Quite simply, wrote Solicitor General Noel Francisco, the 43th and 9th Circuit precedent interferes with presidential prerogative.
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"The colloquy went back and forth several times with Thomas pressing the assistant solicitor general," Lithwick said.
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"OSG" is an abbreviation for the Office of Solicitor General, which litigates on behalf of the government.
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Bill Owens, a Republican, previously served as the state's solicitor general and clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas.
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Justice Kagan has recused herself, based on her work on the case as United States solicitor general.
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"There's a strange element to your argument", Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told Noel Francisco, the solicitor general.
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The Supreme Court invited the U.S solicitor general to submit a brief in the case on Monday.
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Bork, a Yale law professor and former solicitor general of the US, was firmly in the former.
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The solicitor general under Trump would represent the CFPB if the case goes to the Supreme Court.
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Mueller has assembled a formidable team including a former Watergate prosecutor and a former deputy solicitor general.
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He asked Solicitor General Noel Francisco whether the government had considered the impact its decision would have.
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Toby J. Heytens, Virginia's solicitor general, said the moratorium was justified by many factors unrelated to radiation.
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If Rosenstein were fired, or if he quit, the spotlight would turn to Solicitor General Noel Francisco.
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Misha Tseytlin, Wisconsin's solicitor general, said the challengers were relying on flimsy and hypothetical social science evidence.
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Mr. Kedem, 38, is an assistant to the solicitor general in the Department of Justice in Washington.
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Solicitor General Noel Francisco said the appeals court's ruling had already caused chaos at the border. 6.
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For the moment, the office is in good hands under the acting head, Solicitor General Barbara Underwood.
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Srinivasan, 48, served as a deputy solicitor general under Obama before being nominated to the D.C. Circuit.
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The next in line was solicitor general Robert Bork, who carried out Nixon's orders and fired Cox.
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The solicitor general rarely defies the court by addressing an issue the court specifically refused to consider.
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"At best, DACA is legally questionable," Solicitor General Noel Francisco told the justices in briefs last summer.
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Mike Lee and the son of Rex Lee, a former U.S. solicitor general during the Reagan administration.
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His job as solicitor general was to defend Texas, not to worry about the international implications, they say.
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But they both at times hit the Obama administration's lawyer, U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, with tough questions.
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"The dusky gopher frog is a critically endangered species", Edwin Kneedler, the deputy solicitor general, told the justices.
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Roberts was then principal deputy to US Solicitor General Ken Starr, who took the lead in the case.
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Liberal Elena Kagan, the Obama administration's solicitor general when it supported the university in earlier litigation, recused herself.
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Solicitor General Noel Francisco, who would replace Rosenstein if he left, could simply refuse to approve Mueller's requests.
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Brazil's solicitor general on Wednesday won its bid to overturn an injunction that was preventing the TAG sale.
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The former acting solicitor general under Obama testified on behalf of Gorsuch during his confirmation hearings last month.
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When U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco accepted today's speaking invitation, did he imagine it might sound so dramatic?
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The lawyer arguing on behalf of the Trump administration, Solicitor General Noel Francisco, dismissed that argument in court.
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"Congress can go back and do this right," Aurelius lawyer and former U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson said.
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Conway was under consideration to be the US solicitor general before Trump selected Noel Francisco for the position.
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However, in January, Brazil's solicitor-general issued an opinion arguing that those divestments could in fact go ahead.
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In what became known as the "Saturday Night Massacre," Solicitor General Robert Bork fired Cox at Nixon's order.
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"Employers are not to bear any financial burden for the contraceptive coverage," the solicitor general told the court.
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In an unusual step revealing the case's importance, it asked the solicitor general to file a separate brief.
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Justice Elena Kagan had recused herself because she had worked on the case as United States solicitor general.
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She pressed the point when Elizabeth Murrill, the Solicitor General of Louisiana, stood up to defend the law.
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The study asks the provocative question of whether giving the solicitor general this preferred position makes any sense.
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When a federal court strikes down parts of a federal law, the solicitor general typically defends the statute.
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The solicitor general, Jose Calida, had argued that sharing the documents with third parties could jeopardize national security.
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The legal team includes Theodore B. Olson, who served as solicitor general under former President George W. Bush.
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CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article gave an incorrect title for New York Solicitor General Barbara Underwood.
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"It stinks," said Charles Fried, a Harvard law professor who served as solicitor general under President Ronald Reagan.
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Forrester also served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and as Alabama solicitor general.
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Nixon's Solicitor General Robert H. Bork inherited the top Department of Justice job when Richardson and Ruckelshaus resigned.
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EDT: The Senate votes on the nomination of Noel Francisco to be solicitor general of the United States.
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During his career, he has argued 36 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, including as U.S. Solicitor General.
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Solicitor General Lee's lack of team spirit was noticed in the office of Attorney General William French Smith.
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Scott A. Keller, Texas' solicitor general, said state lawmakers had adopted the maps after substantial debate and deliberation.
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" One of them, Ronald Reagan's solicitor general, Charles Fried, told MSNBC on Thursday night: "This man terrifies me.
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Justice Eid had served as the Colorado solicitor general and as a law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas.
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The FEC database identifies the Dreeben who made the contribution as deputy solicitor general in the Justice Department.
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Rosenstein's departure would pave the way for Solicitor General Noel Francisco to take oversight of the Mueller investigation.
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Justice Sotomayor was formerly a judge on the Second Circuit, and Justice Kagan was formerly the solicitor general.
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As it turns out, the court found that number in a brief signed by Solicitor General Ted Olson.
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David L. Franklin, the solicitor general of Illinois, representing 35 states, urged the justices to uphold Tennessee's law.
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At one point, Gorsuch's exchange with the court-appointed defender of the CFPB, Paul Clement, a solicitor general under former President George W. Bush, grew testy, with Gorsuch warning the veteran Supreme Court attorney to "avoid disparaging" Solicitor General Noel Francisco, one of the two attorneys arguing for the other side.
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Solicitor General Noel Francisco said, "there is no basis to conclude that anything Hofeller wrote" influenced the ultimate decision.
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After leaving the solicitor general office in 2008, Mr. Cruz joined the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Houston.
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During his nomination to the appeals court, prominent Republicans such as former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson supported Srinivasan.
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An aggressive solicitor general has come often to the court for emergency relief in cases concerning Trump administration policies.
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"Seems quite unusual that your office would change its position so dramatically," Sotomayor told U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco.
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In addition to his role as solicitor general, Olson is famous for representing Bush in 2000's Bush v.
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As Solicitor General of Texas, Cruz and the GOA intersected on at least one case, the landmark Heller decision.
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Paul Clement to represent House Former Solicitor General Paul Clement will represent the House GOP, a Ryan aide said.
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Toby Crouse, the Kansas solicitor general, said common sense suggested that the car's owner could well be its driver.
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Presumably, his de facto replacement on the Russia probe — U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco — could simply withdraw the referral.
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"This case turns on the fundamental distinction between commandeering and preemption," wrote Principal Deputy Solicitor General Jeffrey B. Wall.
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Originally, Mr. Starr, a former federal judge and United States solicitor general, was going to stay on as chancellor.
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Trump was reportedly considering George to either run the Justice Department's civil division or serve as US Solicitor General.
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Should he resign or be fired, Solicitor General Noel Francisco would be next in line to oversee the investigation.
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Srinivasan, 48, served as a deputy solicitor general in the Obama administration before being nominated to the D.C. Circuit.
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Arguing in defense of Texas' sharp restrictions on abortion clinics will be Scott Keller, 34, the state solicitor general.
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Earlier this month, the Trump administration, through Solicitor General Noel Francisco, formally backed up South Dakota in the case.
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Nixon then named Solicitor General Robert Bork his attorney general, and Bork fired the prosecutor, Archibald Cox — infuriating Congress.
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Because of that, the succession line for the Russia investigation runs next to Noel J. Francisco, the solicitor general.
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The writer, a professor at Harvard Law School, was solicitor general of the United States from 1985 to 1989.
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Brazil's slightly lower Supreme Judicial Court and the nation's solicitor general had approved the sale before the May ruling.
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From 1989 to 2006, he was an assistant to the solicitor general at the Department of Justice in Washington.
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In an emergency application to the Supreme Court, Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco asked the justices to step in.
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Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco urged the justices to hold Mr. Byrd to the terms of the rental agreement.
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While liberal justices compared the procedure to a colonoscopy, Texas's solicitor general said it was more like brain surgery.
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Roberts, in his role as deputy solicitor general and in private practice, argued 21965 cases before the Supreme Court.
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In Friday's filing, Solicitor General Noel Francisco told the court in briefs that the law comports with Roe v.
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He later made partner at two prestigious law firms and served as solicitor general under the first President Bush.
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Sylvia Jones, Ontario's Solicitor General, apologized for the incident and told Canada's CP24 there would be a formal investigation.
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Francisco has also worked on a number of hot-button cases as solicitor general, defending the Trump administration's positions.
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Former solicitor general Vera Baird describes the Evans verdict as a huge reversal of the rights of rape victims.
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Augusto HELENO Solicitor General.........................André Luiz MENDONÇA - - - - - - - - Central Bank President.........................Roberto CAMPOS (End Government List) Reporting by Anthony Boadle
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And if Rosenstein disappeared, that responsibility would fall to the next official technically in line: Solicitor General Noel Francisco.
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He clerked for Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and argued nine cases before the court as solicitor general of Texas.
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Justice Neil Gorsuch, Mr Trump's first nominee, was incredulous that Indiana's solicitor general, Thomas Fisher, was arguing to the contrary.
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On the 103rd ballot, Democrats finally settled on John W. Davis, an anodyne lawyer who had been Wilson's solicitor general.
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US Solicitor General Noel Francisco worked on some of the contraception cases when he was a partner at the firm.
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Predicting how the next Solicitor General will view sports betting is about as difficult as nailing a perfect parlay card.
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Indiana's solicitor general, Thomas Fisher, faced a battering from a slate of the justices during his oral argument that month.
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While Francisco would have no constitutional grounds on which to refuse, he would no doubt remember Solicitor General Robert Bork.
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Dreeben, a deputy in the Office of the Solicitor General, has argued more than 100 cases before the Supreme Court.
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He was Obama's principal deputy solicitor general, most notably working in the successful fight against the Defense of Marriage Act.
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He was Obama's principal deputy solicitor general, most notably working on the successful fight against the Defense of Marriage Act.
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She is a former professor at Georgetown Law School and an assistant to the solicitor general during the Clinton administration.
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Justice Elena Kagan, who formerly was U.S. solicitor general and backed the Texas program, did not participate in the case.
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Australian Solicitor-General Stephen Donaghue had urged the seven justices of the High Court not to interpret the constitution literally.
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In July she is to become a Bristow Fellow in the office of the solicitor general in the Justice Department.
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Patiently waiting in Senate queue for months to get a floor vote is Trump's stellar Solicitor General nominee Noel Francisco.
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Richardson and his deputy William Ruckelshaus resigned rather than carry out the order, but Solicitor General Robert Bork eventually complied.
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The office was led at the time by Starr, then solicitor general, and deputy John Roberts, now the chief justice.
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Solicitor General Noel Francisco, writing on behalf of the Department of Justice, shrugged off the warnings from the technology companies.
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Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall argued on behalf of the United States in support of the employers in the cases.
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The first such counsel was Archibald Cox, a former solicitor general from the Kennedy administration and a Harvard law professor.
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Moving down the line after they resigned, Nixon found that Solicitor General Robert Bork was willing to do the deed.
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After Richardson and Ruckelshaus' resignations, Solicitor General Robert Bork (at this point acting head of the Justice Department) fired Cox.
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Ms. Kagan, then the solicitor general, faced questions about her lack of judicial experience and her stance on the military.
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In last week's argument, Jeffrey B. Wall, a deputy solicitor general, argued in favor of a state law restricting abortions.
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But unions can survive without the fees, Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco wrote in a brief for the Trump administration.
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"That's always an option to litigants," said Ted Olson, the former U.S. Solicitor General who has joined Brady's legal team.
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In an emergency application to the Supreme Court, the solicitor general, Noel J. Francisco, asked the justices to step in.
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That led the Supreme Court to tap former solicitor general and conservative legal star Paul Clement to defend the agency.
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It is one thing to appoint an acting underling, like an acting solicitor general, a post one of us held.
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Nixon's willing executioner back in the October 1973 was the No. 3 man at Justice, the solicitor general Robert Bork.
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The Supreme Court generally gives special deference to the views of the U.S. solicitor general, the federal government's top lawyer.
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In between, he worked for former President George H.W. Bush's administration as principal deputy solicitor general from 1989 to 1993.
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The third-ranking Justice Department official, Solicitor General Robert H. Bork, complied with Mr. Nixon's order and fired Mr. Cox.
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"I'm sure they would dearly love to see him step down soon," said Walter Dellinger, a former acting solicitor general.
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It's hard not to feel empathy for Jeffrey B. Wall, a respected Washington lawyer now serving as acting solicitor general.
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Democratic senators had also wanted documents from Roberts' time as a deputy solicitor general in the George H.W. Bush administration.
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"It is with great reluctance that we seek such emergency relief in this court," Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco wrote.
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Justice Elena Kagan recused herself from the case, presumably because she dealt with it in her previous job as solicitor general.
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The solicitor general is the person who argues on behalf of the government in the Supreme Court of the United States.
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During one hearing when Washington State Solicitor General Noah Purcell was asked about whether the ban inferred "religious animus," Purcell pounced.
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That same year, Fiske was ousted, and former solicitor general Kenneth Starr was appointed special counsel by a panel of judges.
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Other potential choices for the solicitor general nomination were lawyers Christopher Landau of Kirkland & Ellis and Kannon Shanmugam of Williams & Connolly.
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In urging the Supreme Court not to hear the case, Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. said the prosecution was unexceptional.
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Theodore Olson, a Supreme Court veteran who served as the solicitor general under the Bush administration, is representing the DACA participants.
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The proceedings took on a surreal air as the solicitor-general, Robert Buckland, repeatedly interrupted Mr Grieve's speech to offer concessions.
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On Friday, the county's solicitor general dismissed 89 cases in which the two officers were the principal officers or necessary witnesses.
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We spoke with Assistant Solicitor General Jennifer Scacco who told us Anderson's arrest is directly related to the gas station incident.
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It is the solicitor general who would officially file the brief laying out the new administration's position in the gambling case.
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The current solicitor general, Donald Verrilli, also was present, as were White House counsel Neil Eggleston and Attorney General Loretta lynch.
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But the Solicitor General seems to me to have the stronger position on the case's mootness, or, at least, its ripeness.
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She was an assistant in the office of the solicitor general and clerked for Judge Thomas Tang of the 22012th Circuit.
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Acting Solicitor General Ian Heath Gershengorn admitted that it would be "exceedingly rare" for the court to re-hear a case.
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Solicitor General Robert Bork, next in line at the Justice Department at the time, finally followed Nixon's order and fired Cox.
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On Wednesday night, Sessions had a very public night out with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Solicitor General Noel Francisco.
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The Solicitor General plans to send a final version of the plan to the Supreme Court for approval by year-end.
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Olson, a former George W. Bush solicitor general, seemed to gain ground with members of the court's liberal wing during arguments.
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Francisco, the solicitor general, argued that the courts lack jurisdiction to review the repeal, and that their decisions should be vacated.
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The ninth, Justice Thurgood Marshall, had disqualified himself because he had been the Justice Department's Solicitor General when Ali's case originated.
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Brazil's solicitor general overturned the injunction in early January, allowing Petrobras to reopen bidding for potential buyers interested in buying TAG.
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Those words only mean that an individual may lawfully work, the outgoing solicitor general, Donald Verrilli, told the justices in April.
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In October, he is to begin work as a deputy solicitor general for the California Department of Justice in San Francisco.
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Members of the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit were highly skeptical as they grilled Indiana's solicitor general, Thomas Fisher.
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Bernhardt also served at the Interior Department under President George W. Bush, including as solicitor general and deputy chief of staff.
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It's unclear what the solicitor general will recommend, but Newberger believes that Venezuela's appeal makes the case attractive to the justices.
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Justice Elena Kagan's "significant involvement" was as solicitor general, a position that is primarily concerned with managing the administration's appellate litigation.
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"Seldom have so many hopes been crushed by so few words," Walter Dellinger, a former acting solicitor general, wrote on Slate.
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Conway had previously been considered for the post of US solicitor general, according to sources who spoke to CNN in December.
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It was in the fall of 20093 when Mr. Cruz, then living in Washington, heard about the opening for solicitor general.
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Nixon eventually turned to Solicitor General Robert Bork, who was next in line in the chain of command, who fired Cox.
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But no one was surprised when, in January 2015, he returned to Texas as solicitor general of the new Republican administration.
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Michael Dreeben, a deputy solicitor general working with Mueller, argued the special counsel's investigative scope covered the activity in the indictment.
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His name was among those floated as a potential pick for solicitor general in the early days of the Trump administration.
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Judge Bork, then the United States solicitor general, complied with the president's order to fire the Watergate special prosecutor, Archibald Cox.
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The Trump administration switched sides in the new case, prompting a comment from Justice Sotomayor to Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco.
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The White House said Noel Francisco, now the U.S. solicitor general, was the lead White House lawyer on the Pickering nomination.
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Elizabeth Warren discussed her friendships with Republicans including former U.S. Solicitor General Charles Fried as well as her own family members.
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"What's happening in Mindanao is no longer a rebellion of Filipino citizens," said Jose Calida, the solicitor general of the Philippines.
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When the clock ran out on Mr. Komer, the administration's principal deputy solicitor general, Jeffrey Wall, picked up the plaintiffs' argument.
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Solicitor General Noel Francisco, meanwhile, filed a document in the Supreme Court arguing that the Court should not expedite this case.
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He also served as a fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General, when Kenneth Starr was investigating President Bill Clinton.
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The Supreme Court's decision came less than two hours after Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall filed a request for a stay.
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California Deputy Solicitor General Joshua Klein said he thought the nationwide aspect of the order was within the district judge's discretion.
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The company said the Solicitor General of Ontario had confirmed there was no intention to notify the public in this instance.
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In Monday night's filing, Solicitor General Noel Francisco urged the court to lift the injunction while the appeals process plays out.
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But recognizing that fact, Solicitor General Noel Francisco still wanted to do what he could to help keep the case going.
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The Trump administration was previously considering Conway for the role of solicitor general, but ultimately chose Noel Francisco for the job.
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He was acting solicitor general of the Justice Department at the start of "Fast and Furious" and during the resulting controversy.
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Technically, the next in line is Solicitor General Noel Francisco, who is now serving in Brand's role in an acting capacity.
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Scott Walker and the state's GOP legislature created a new Office of Solicitor General to pursue this kind of high-stakes litigation.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate acting Solicitor General Noel Francisco to permanently fill that position Tuesday night.
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In 2010, former solicitor general Ken Starr was brought in as university president to bring in the cash to fund the expansion.
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Before going into private practice, he served as Texas' solicitor general — a position that Cruz previously held — and as Cornyn's chief counsel.
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LAST spring, Scott Keller, the solicitor general for Texas, rose to defend his state's indefensible abortion clinic regulations at the Supreme Court.
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"It is not mere speculation whether these clauses will or won't be violated by the president," Maryland's solicitor general Steven Sullivan argued.
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"Previous statements and reporting on the Solicitor General of India's comments to the Supreme Court are puzzling," Vaz said in an email.
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Kagan and Clement both served as solicitor general, the head of the office that represents the federal government before the Supreme Court.
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He followed a one-year fellowship in the office of U.S. Solicitor General Kenneth Starr with a clerkship for Justice Anthony Kennedy.
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However, presenting a 123-page report, Deputy Solicitor General Thusitha Mudhalige said investigators had found no credible evidence for those other charges.
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" And Neal Katyal, who served as an acting Solicitor General under President Obama, hails Judge Gorsuch as "an extraordinary judge and man.
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At the merits stage in the Pliva case, the justices ruled against tort plaintiffs, even though the solicitor general sided with them.
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"It's a wonderful day for the rule of law in this country," said Washington state solicitor general Noah Purcell, according to Reuters.
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One of the most prominent attendees was Paul Clement, a former clerk who served as solicitor general during George W. Bush's presidency.
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He served as solicitor general under President George W. Bush, as well as counselor and deputy chief of staff to then-Sec.
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A lawyer believed to be on the shortlist for President Trump's solicitor general has removed himself from the running, Politico reported Thursday.
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Marshall was confirmed to the appeals court, which led to his later appointment as solicitor general and finally to the Supreme Court.
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"The question of a leadership challenge, I think it's out the window, gone," said Robert Buckland, Solicitor General for England and Wales.
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In a baffling turn, the solicitor-general told the Supreme Court the jewel was neither "forcibly taken nor stolen" from colonial India.
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Solicitor General Noel Francisco has asked the Supreme Court to make the final decision on whether the recision is lawful or not.
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In an exchange with Donald Verrilli, the United States Solicitor General, she asked him to confirm that "you only deport 400,000" annually.
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The justices last month asked the solicitor general to weigh in on the legal case before they decide whether to hear arguments.
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Solicitor General Noel Francisco did not seek a stay of one injunction that was issued by a federal district court in Maryland.
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When I was the Justice Department's acting solicitor general, it was easy to see both types of executive branch checks at work.
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In fact, Kagan, as the US solicitor general, had argued against that decision lifting federal regulation of corporate and labor campaign spending.
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When he first took the job, the offices of the solicitor general were a few blocks from that of the attorney general.
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"At this point, who President Trump nominates as Solicitor General is even more important than the ninth Supreme Court Justice," Wallach says.
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Through most of the 53s, it was not unusual for the court to deny requests for argument time from the solicitor general.
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That statement said that the Mueller probe would be overseen by the Department of Justice's No. 4 official, solicitor general Noel Francisco.
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked Scott A. Keller, the solicitor general of Texas, whether Mr. Ayestas's trial lawyers had done an adequate job.
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Friday's filing was likely submitted by Solicitor General Noel Francisco's office, which handles nearly all Supreme Court briefs for the U.S. government.
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As solicitor general of Alabama, he took the most extreme position against voting rights in every case in which he was involved.
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Scott A. Keller, the Texas solicitor general, said judges there followed the requirements of a 2002 Supreme Court decision, Atkins v. Virginia.
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In the 1950s Mr. Sand was an assistant United States attorney in Manhattan and an assistant to the United States solicitor general.
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In a brief filed by Solicitor General Noel Francisco, the administration frames the for-cause provision as a threat to executive power.
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"Well, Your Honor, I don't know the answer to that," said Solicitor General Noel Francisco, who argued in support of Ohio's practice.
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US Solicitor General Donald Verrilli pointed to research that found Texas ASCs performed just 14,000 abortions after the law went into effect.
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Kenneth W. Starr, a former president and chancellor of Baylor University, was a former solicitor general in the George H.W. Bush administration.
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In a harbinger of current events, Comey only agreed to go if he could bring a witness, then–Solicitor General Ted Olson.
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In Thursday's stay request over the transgender military policy, U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco, the administration's top Supreme Court lawyer, did too.
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The fact that he only argued once gives him more experience than Elena Kagan who served as solicitor general from 2009 to 2010.
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But it's telling that the administration took this stance and that Francisco, as the solicitor general, is making these arguments before the court.
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Ultimately none of the people arrested in the raid faced charges under the act as the Solicitor-General found the evidence was insufficient.
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The other is Paul Clement, who served as solicitor general in the George W. Bush administration and is a former clerk of Scalia.
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The solicitor-general last month ruled out pressing charges against Anwar over the allegations, which the politician described as "politics at its worst".
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Solicitor General Noel Francisco argued in court briefs that the President needs to be able to hire and fire using his executive authority.
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Upon his resignation Tuesday, Solicitor General Barbara Underwood will take over as New York's acting attorney general, the office confirmed late Monday night.
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In December, the court ordered Solicitor-General Jose Calida to submit details of those killed in police operations and other drug-related deaths.
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Shortly after they were fired, the county solicitor general dismissed 89 cases in which the two were the principal officers or necessary witnesses.
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An emailed statement from BC Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth stated that the government is reviewing all consultation submissions.
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Conservative Neil Gorsuch, appointed by President Donald Trump last year, was the most outspoken, almost berating Indiana's lawyer, state Solicitor General Thomas Fisher.
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Other potential contenders who have cropped up in Trump-friendly circles in recent months include Whitaker, Solicitor General Noel Francisco, Texas Republican Rep.
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Former U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson and Washington, D.C.-based lawyer Joseph diGenova both rejected reported job offers to join Trump's legal team.
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Mr. Obama nominated him in 2011 as solicitor general to succeed Elena Kagan after she was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice.
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And misdemeanor charges, including reckless and aggressive driving, are under review by the office of the solicitor general, said District Attorney Darius Pattillo.
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George Conway is a prominent lawyer -- he was considered for solicitor general among other positions by Trump -- who operates an active Twitter feed.
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A high-powered lawyer and former solicitor general, Olson was contacted by the White House in March, reportedly about joining the legal team.
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"He turned a little post in Austin into a nationally significant position," said James C. Ho, who succeeded Mr. Cruz as solicitor general.
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On May 1, 2013, Clayton Eubanks, Deputy Solicitor General, sent a draft letter for EPA about methane regulation to Whitsitt for his review.
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If Mr. Rosenstein leaves, Noel J. Francisco, the solicitor general, would assume oversight of the Russia investigation, according to a Justice Department official.
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Solicitor General Noel Francisco agreed that the court should hold that the single director structure is invalid and violates the separation of powers.
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Invoking those cases, Solicitor General Francisco insists to the court that "that standard has been met here," an assertion the plaintiffs vigorously dispute.
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Lest there be any doubt about that, Mr. Sessions very publicly dined Wednesday night with Mr. Rosenstein and the solicitor general, Noel Francisco.
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In his brief, Mr. Olson, a former solicitor general, used unusually harsh words in criticizing the current one for taking a different approach.
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Though he wasn't chosen to be solicitor general, Conway was offered a senior role within the Department of Justice by the Trump administration.
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Toby J. Heytens, Virginia's solicitor general, said the House was not authorized to appeal to the Supreme Court from the district court's decision.
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Calida is seen as a close ally of Duterte and helped manage his election campaign before being appointed solicitor-general in June 2016.
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What I mean is this: The briefs and motions that Solicitor General Francisco has filed in the case now known as Hargan v.
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"This Court has repeatedly made clear that the government generally need not facilitate abortions," the solicitor general writes in his Supreme Court appeal.
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"She is not the easiest person to chat up," former acting Solicitor General Walter Dellinger, who considered himself a friend of Reno's, admitted.
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"It's really the alien's choice to trigger further delay," said Malcolm L. Stewart, a deputy solicitor general representing the government in the case.
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He explained that his role as solicitor general in Texas required him to defend the laws on behalf of the state attorney general.
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Washington (CNN)Former Solicitor General Ted Olson will not join President Donald Trump's legal team, a partner of Olson's legal firm said Tuesday.
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Clearview also hired Paul D. Clement, a United States solicitor general under President George W. Bush, to assuage concerns about the app's legality.
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Thirty years ago, Roberts and Minear worked together in the office of the US Solicitor General, the government's top lawyer before the court.
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Sekulow has a long history working with Starr, going back to when Starr was solicitor general and Sekulow argued to the Supreme Court.
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Prosecutors said at the time that if the solicitor general decided against an appeal, the indictment against Mr. Wey would probably be dismissed.
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"The issue is not whether Congress can or should prohibit employment discrimination because of sexual orientation," Solicitor General Noel Francisco told the justices.
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Led by Donald B. Verrilli Jr., who later became the solicitor general, the task force found that each of the invocations was legitimate.
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"Far from being urgently needed, this Court's review thus would be premature," Solicitor General Noel Francisco wrote for the Justice Department on Friday.
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But it was backed last year by Trump's Solicitor General Noel Francisco, who urged the Supreme Court (unsuccessfully) to let Oracle's victory stand.
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Senators, absent an agreement, are scheduled to take up an initial vote on Noel Francisco's nomination to be solicitor general on Tuesday morning.
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Florida's solicitor general argued that the system was acceptable because a jury first decides if the defendant is eligible for the death penalty.
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Scott Keller, the Texas solicitor general, opened his remarks by pointing out that most of the state's big cities still had abortion clinics.
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So has Ted Olson, the former U.S. solicitor general who defended Jonathan Pollard, the spy convicted of providing U.S. government secrets to Israel.
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The solicitor general rarely asks the court to announce an interpretation of a statutory provision that was not at issue in the case.
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All eyes are on Solicitor General Noel Francisco amid reports Monday that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein could be on the chopping block.
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If Sessions and Rosenstein are both fired (or quit), then in that case, Solicitor General Noel Francisco, would elevate to acting attorney general.
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Wednesday evening, Sessions was spotted dining with his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the special counsel's Russia probe, along with the solicitor general.
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Francisco has been the solicitor general for a year, and in that time has defended the Trump administration's positions before the Supreme Court.
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But Mr. Clement, who served as United States solicitor general from 2005 through 2008, asserts that Granholm should logically extend to wine retailers.
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" Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco defended the challenged precedents but only to a point, saying they should be sustained in their "core applications.
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Cruz, a former U.S. Supreme Court clerk, helped bolster his political career when he served as Texas solicitor general from 2003 to 2008.
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One of them was Obama's acting solicitor general, Neal Katyal, who successfully challenged the Trump administration's new travel ban in federal court in Hawaii.
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Maybe the Solicitor General is playing 4-D chess, because he knows the federal government cannot possibly enforce PASPA in every town in America.
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If Rosenstein refuses and Trump fires him, then the assignment could fall next in line at the Justice Department is Solicitor General Noel Francisco.
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PIRRIO: I mean, we&aposre not - look Elena Kagan went from Solicitor General to the United States Supreme Court, she was never a judge.
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They're no longer going quite that far; acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall admitted Monday that an explicit ban on Muslim immigration wouldn't be constitutional.
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I know those efforts well; in my role as Deputy Solicitor General, part of my job is to coordinate Alabama's participation in these lawsuits.
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Stephen McAllister, the state's solicitor general, argued that while Kansas may be spending less on education than some other states, student achievement is improving.
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A Justice Department official told The New York Times that if Rosenstein is out, then Solicitor General Noel Francisco would oversee the Russia investigation.
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Kupperman's defense attorney, Chuck Cooper, who had been considered for solicitor general early in the Trump administration, took the immunity claim to the judge.
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In briefs, Solicitor General Noel Francisco said that the lower court opinion "produces untenable results" by blocking a state from enforcing identity threat prosecutions.
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Obama nominated Verrilli to succeed Elena Kagan as solicitor general after she was sworn into the position of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
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But in May Richardson, appointed Cox, a professor at Harvard Law School who had served as solicitor general under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, anyway.
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A former clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall, Underwood has served as Acting Solicitor General and has argued 20 cases before the US Supreme Court.
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Among them were Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton, of the federal appeals court in Cincinnati, and Paul D. Clement, a former United States solicitor general.
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Firing back, Jeffrey Wall, Mr Trump's acting solicitor-general, wrote that Hawaii's position is a ploy to "drain [the Supreme Court's ruling] of meaning".
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"Kennedy was in the majority in 98% of the opinions last term," former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal said in an interview last week.
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The solicitor-general has filed a petition at the Supreme Court in recent weeks to nullify her original appointment as the country's top judge.
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Jeffrey Wall, the acting solicitor general, argued Monday that Trump's statements about Muslims prior to taking office should not be considered evidence of discrimination.
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For this case, the company has brought on Seth Waxman of WilmerHale, who was Solicitor General under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001.
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Yet Kagan, a former Harvard law dean and US solicitor general, said she was "100% certain" the majority reached the decision in good faith.
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Solicitor General Jose Calida, who took the case to the SEC, said the outcome showed that even influential media could not skirt constitutional restrictions.
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The solicitor general is the Justice Department's third-highest ranking official and argues cases on the federal government's behalf at the US Supreme Court.
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Scott Keller, the young Texas solicitor general who is arguing in favour of House Bill 2, will miss Justice Scalia's perspective on Wednesday morning.
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Acting Solicitor General Ian Gershengorn, however, argued that his clients can't be sued because there's no proof they ordered the detainees to be abused.
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Justice Elena Kagan was midway through a sentence with Curtis Gannon, assistant to the Solicitor General, in a case concerning registration for sex offenders.
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Thurgood Marshall removed himself from about 22 percent of the cases decided in his first term because he was solicitor general before being nominated.
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Calls for the views of the solicitor general usually signal that the justices are seriously considering allowing the lawsuit to proceed to oral arguments.
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Foreign fighters Philippines Solicitor General Jose Calida told reporters on Friday that the declaration of martial law shouldn't cause alarm for law-abiding citizens.
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The two officials refused and resigned — sparking the "Saturday Night Massacre" — and the special prosecutor was eventually fired by the solicitor general, Robert Bork.
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In a Fordham Law Review article, Neal Katyal, who was that acting Solicitor General in 2011, and the counsel of record in Trump v.
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On "House of Cards," she played Heather Dunbar, a U.S. Solicitor General and Presidential candidate, whose moral righteousness vexes Kevin Spacey's curdled Frank Underwood.
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Solicitor General Noel Francisco made the determination on Tuesday, according to a DOJ filing to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.
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"A custom wedding cake is not an ordinary baked good; its function is more communicative and artistic than utilitarian," Solicitor General Noel Francisco argued.
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In the court filings, Acting Solicitor General Jeff Wall highlighted the unprecedented nature of courts second-guessing the president on national security and immigration.
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But in a twist, the solicitor general has also asked the court to punish the opposing attorneys at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
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It's the latest move by an aggressive solicitor general to bypass the lower courts and ask the newly solidified conservative Supreme Court for relief.
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Mr. Clement's résumé includes victories before the United States Supreme Court from both sides of the aisle, as solicitor general and in private practice.
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Under Bush he had a junior role, while under Obama he was a political appointee serving as the top deputy to the solicitor general.
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And Kagan and Sotomayor were very critical of a lawyer for the government, Solicitor General Noel Francisco, who argued in support of Ohio's position.
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Justice Ginsburg asked Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco, who represents the administration in the Supreme Court, why it did not defend the challenged law.
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The next official in line would be the solicitor general, Noel J. Francisco, a former White House and Justice Department lawyer under Mr. Bush.
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The minister leading those negotiations, Solicitor General Robert Buckland, said the government was standing by its own proposal, rejected by party rebels last week.
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But it's telling that the administration is taking this stance and that Francisco, as the solicitor general, is making these arguments before the Court.
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Clearview, clearly wary of the potential backlash to news of its technology, has hired former solicitor general Paul Clement to buttress its legal arguments.
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The solicitor general under President Barack Obama endorsed the view of the labor board: that it is unlawful to stop workers from acting together.
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But President Trump's solicitor general took the extraordinary step of switching sides and filed a "friend of the court" brief on the employers' behalf.
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The appeals court had gotten things badly wrong on legal issues that were "recurring and important," Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco told the justices.
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"As recently as three years ago", Mr Vladeck says, the August 26th request "would have been a very surprising filing" from the solicitor general.
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Every time the office of the solicitor general changes position, without an intervening change in the law, it damages its credibility a little bit.
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The counsel eventually decided not to pursue charges against Olson, and Olson would go on to serve as solicitor general of the United States.
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The Washington Post reported Tuesday that the president has extended an offer to Olson, the former U.S. solicitor general under President George W. Bush.
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Virginia's solicitor general, Toby J. Heytens, told the justices on Monday that the House did not have the legal right to be in court.
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The U.S. solicitor general similarly warned that a ruling for consumers in the Apple case threatened to squelch the rapidly-expanding e-commerce sector.
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They ran into an unexpected obstacle: Rex E. Lee, the administration's solicitor general, in charge of all federal government representation before the Supreme Court.
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"What was impending was a nationwide launch of Juul ... it (the government) chose to act immediately," additional solicitor general Aman Lekhi told the court.
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A deputy solicitor general at the time, Paul Bator, argued that the court should defer to the administration, which favored a lighter regulatory touch.
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The brief on the merits that Solicitor General Francisco filed in December took a surprisingly different line of attack on the Ninth Circuit's decision.
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Katyal was identified as a former solicitor general, a law professor at Georgetown University and a private litigator at the law firm Hogan Lovells.
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Such documents were also withheld by the Barack Obama administration when former solicitor general Elena Kagan was nominated for the Supreme Court in 2010.
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Solicitor General Noel Francisco asked the justice to stop any further discovery and the pending trial while the government appeals the lower court opinion.
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In papers filed with the court, Solicitor General Noel Francisco told the justices the lower courts were wrong to allow the depositions to proceed.
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Cruz has touted his experience as Texas solicitor general as Republicans work to block President Obama's pick to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
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The goal is "to put a significant dent in the black market," said Mike Farnworth, the province's solicitor general and minister for public safety.
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Scalia died after oral arguments and Kagan is recused from the case presumably because she dealt with it in her previous job as Solicitor General.
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They included Ted Olson, a prominent Republican lawyer who served as U.S. solicitor general under Bush, and Dan Webb, a former federal prosecutor in Chicago.
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It would be easy to dismiss this as flattery from a former law clerk who, as solicitor general, was trying to get the justice's vote.
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" Marshall made the revelation to Lincoln Caplan who published a book in 1987 called "The Tenth Justice: The Solicitor General and the Rule of Law.
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Neal Katyal served from 2010-2011 as acting solicitor general for President Barack Obama and he believes liberals should back Gorsuch for the Supreme Court.
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Iowa Solicitor General Jeffrey Thompson, who defended the law for the state, argued that protecting unborn life is a state interest of the highest order.
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Texas's legal strategy is being coordinated in Austin by state Solicitor General Scott Keller, who worked as a law clerk to Kennedy in 2009-2010.
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"What's happening in Mindanao is no longer a rebellion of Filipino citizens," Solicitor General Jose Calida told reporters in explaining why martial law was imposed.
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Ho succeeded Cruz as Texas solicitor general and he's served on a state commission that Cruz and Cornyn rely on to vet federal court candidates.
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Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco, representing the administration, said the latest travel ban, issued in September as a presidential proclamation, was not directed at Muslims.
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He'll be replaced by his principal deputy, Ian Gershengorn, who will take over as acting solicitor general on June 25, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said.
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In 19953, after a federal appeals court ruled against CMC, Ms. Warren filed a brief asking the solicitor general to support a Supreme Court review.
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Meanwhile, Apple has hired Theodore Olson, a former US Solicitor General whose wife died in the September 11 attacks, to speak for them in court.
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"This decision, or non-decision, represents a signal failure of democracy," Walter Dellinger, the former acting solicitor general in the Clinton administration wrote in Slate.
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From 2015 until he joined the Justice Department in January, Talley worked in Montgomery in the Alabama attorney general's office as the deputy solicitor general.
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A brief co-authored by Charles Fried, a solicitor-general under Ronald Reagan, argues that it is "manifestly incorrect" that all union speech is political.
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BRASILIA, July 31 (Reuters) - Brazil's controller general and solicitor general said on Wednesday they had signed a leniency agreement with engineering group Camargo Correa SA .
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She pressed Solicitor General Noel Francisco on why the question was being asked of all recipients after some "65 odd years" of being left off.
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In reply, Frederick Yarger, Colorado's solicitor general, argued that Mr Phillips's demurral "depended entirely on the identity of the customer who was ordering the cake".
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Meanwhile, Apple has hired Theodore Olson, a former US Solicitor General whose wife died in the September 11 attacks, to speak for them in court.
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California Teachers Association, No. 14-915, Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr., representing the Obama administration, urged the justices to leave the Abood ruling alone.
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The remarks by Solicitor General Jose Calida follow two days of carefully calibrated responses from the Philippines and are almost certain to irritate China further.
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If Trump were to fire Rosenstein, then Solicitor General Noel Francisco would handle oversight of the Mueller probe and inherit the ability to fire him.
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Google appealed that ruling to the Supreme Court, but the highest court declined to hear the case on the advice of the US Solicitor General.
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Later Monday, Conway said Trump hurt his case and made things difficult for the Office of Solicitor General, which argues cases before the Supreme Court.
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Solicitor General Noel Francisco, who represents the federal government at the Supreme Court, joined the fight on Oklahoma's side in a brief filed last week.
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"Our records reflect that this was your 100th oral argument before the court," the chief justice told the lawyer, Deputy Solicitor General Michael R. Dreeben.
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In addition, Judge Lee's father, Rex, served as solicitor general in the Reagan administration, and his brother, Mike Lee, is a Republican senator from Utah.
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Confessions of error is a legal practice where the United States Solicitor General admits that the Court ruling in the government's favor was a mistake.
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Kyle Duncan — now a judge on the federal Fifth Circuit appeals court — and former Solicitor General Paul Clement, argued the Supreme Court case Burwell v.
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Justice Elena Kagan, who would probably have voted with the majority, was recused from the case because she had worked on it as solicitor general.
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Starr now is back — in the limelight and touting his credentials: a law clerk to a Chief Justice, a federal appeals court judge, Solicitor General.
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In papers filed with the Supreme Court in both cases, Solicitor General Noel Francisco sought to differentiate the President's most recent ban from prior iterations.
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Former Goldman Sachs employee Elena Kagan was appointed Solicitor General when Obama took office, and she was also speculated as a possible Supreme Court nominee.
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Later in the argument, Kavanaugh chided California's solicitor general, Michael Mongan, for suggesting that the administration did not carefully consider its rationale for ending DACA.
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As solicitor general of Texas, Cruz became a star advocate at the bar of the Supreme Court, then made his way to the U.S. Senate.
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" Acting Solicitor General Ian H. Gershengorn rejected the lower court opinion, calling it a "one size fits all rule" that would undo the "legislative balance.
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Solicitor General Noel Francisco asked the justices to halt any further discovery and the pending trial while the government files appeals with the high court.
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"If you wanted to game a Supreme Court nomination, you would go to one side or the other," said Neal Katyal, former acting solicitor general.
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Going against the Solicitor General and hearing a case where there are no circuit splits signals that legal sports betting is just around the corner.
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Worked as chief counsel for Senate Judiciary subcommittees on the Constitution and immigration under Senator John Cornyn, a Republican, and served as Texas's solicitor general.
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This did not sit well with Theodore B. Olson, a lawyer for the victims who served as solicitor general in the George W. Bush administration.
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And the legislation targets the authority of the incoming Democratic attorney general, Josh Kaul, who would no longer be able to hire a solicitor general.
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Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco, the Trump administration lawyer, also said that it would be harder to justify discrimination against interracial couples than gay ones.
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"This is turmoil, it's chaos, it's confusion, it's not good for anything," Ted Olson, a George W. Bush administration solicitor general, told NBC on Monday.
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Since last year, George Conway, a prominent attorney whom Trump considered nominating for solicitor general, has been posting and retweeting tweets critical of the President.
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Last week, Solicitor General Noel Francisco sent a request asking the court to do the same for an injunction imposed by an Illinois district court.
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The Trump administration, through Solicitor General Noel Francisco, urged the justices to scrap the 2nd Circuit precedent in light of the new defense spending bill.
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Noah G. Purcell, Washington State's solicitor general, fared little better in fending off questions from Judge Richard R. Clifton, appointed by President George W. Bush.
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Noah Purcell, the solicitor general of Washington State, said there had also been "conversations with businesses in Washington" about the order's impact on the state.
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"The government has to keep its word," argued Paul Clement, a lawyer for the insurers who served as solicitor general under President George W. Bush.
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Donald Verrilli, who defended the law as President Barack Obama's solicitor general and is now in private practice, is among the lawyers representing the House.
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That responsibility would go to Solicitor General Noel Francisco, and experts agree that the law gives Trump little control over that aspect of the succession.
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Francisco is a longtime conservative lawyer who was confirmed in September 2017 to the role of solicitor general, the Justice Department's top Supreme Court litigator.
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From 1973 to 19873, Bork served as solicitor general of the United States, arguing cases before the Supreme Court on behalf of the federal government.
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One instructive example comes from the career of George Conway, the husband of presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway and a possible candidate to be Trump's solicitor general.
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"What happened in 2017 ... is that Congress took away" -- effectively undercut -- the core of Roberts' opinion calling it a tax, argued Texas Solicitor General Kyle Hawkins.
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Appeals court judges expressed doubts about the government's terrorism claims but also pressed Washington state Solicitor General Noah Purcell about the broad reach of the order.
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Solicitor General Noel Francisco cited that memo on Monday in a brief to the justices urging them not to take up the issue of Whitaker's appointment.
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Theodore B. Olson is a Partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Washington, D.C. office and served as U.S. Solicitor General during the presidency of George W. Bush.
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Texas case, decided when Cruz was the state's solicitor general, set the stage for years of diplomatic tension between the United States and its southern neighbor.
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"There are literally tens of thousands of people in prison under such very harsh sentences," said Charles Fried, the former solicitor general under President Ronald Reagan.
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It is not uncommon for senior Justice Department officials to ask the administration's regular Supreme Court lawyer, the solicitor general, if they can argue a case.
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When Cruz was a solicitor general back in 2007, he defended a Texas law banning the sale or advertisement of sex toys (which was struck down).
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But according to the Justice Department, the solicitor general would be next in line to oversee the Mueller investigation should Rosenstein be fired or recuse himself.
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Dominion said it welcomed news that the Solicitor General would join the case, noting for decades that 56 other pipelines have operated across the Appalachian Trail.
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Kyle Hawkins, Texas' solicitor general, said "essential" language was all the 5th Circuit needed to look at to see the entire law should be struck down.
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Starr, a conservative Republican who had served as Solicitor General of the United States, took over from Robert Fiske and proved to be an aggressive prosecutor.
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Trump has not yet nominated anyone to fill the role of solicitor general, the Justice Department lawyer who represents the federal government before the Supreme Court.
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Grace Mendonça, the solicitor-general, is part of a government working group that is trying to assuage differences between shareholders and creditors before a key Nov.
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Michael Mongan, the deputy solicitor general of California, who argued for DACA alongside Olson, said the Obama administration's program was consistent with historical deportation-relief policies.
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The solicitor general, a position often known as "the 10th justice" because appearances before the court are so frequent, has an office inside the Supreme Court.
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"I think it can be read both as not endorsing what the solicitor general is doing, but also not slapping him on the wrist," he added.
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New York Solicitor General Barbara Underwood has been named acting attorney general, but a number of potential candidates to replace Schneiderman have emerged since his resignation.
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Michael Mongan, the deputy solicitor general of California said the administration hadn't shown "its homework" and it was necessary to do so before terminating the program.
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Most recently the assistant to the U.S. solicitor general, Nicole Saharsky has joined the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher as a partner in its Washington office.
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Former U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli of Munger Tolles & Olson represented LinkedIn, which contends hiQ has no First Amendment right of access to LinkedIn's computer servers.
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As solicitor general, Francisco is already one of the top authorities within the Justice Department and has regularly defended the Trump administration before the Supreme Court.
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They did not say why, but Justice Sotomayor used to be a judge on the Second Circuit and Justice Kagan was formerly United States solicitor general.
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"Although the court of appeals' decision was erroneous, this case does not satisfy this Court's traditional standards for certiorari," then-Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall wrote.
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Mr. Verrilli argued 37 cases before the nation's highest court in the five years that he was the Obama administration's top appellate lawyer, the solicitor general.
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Kagan spoke about serving as the solicitor general -- the government's lawyer before the court -- just before she was nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama.
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Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III has recused himself because his son-in-law, acting Solicitor General Jeffrey B. Wall, will represent the administration at Monday's hearing.
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"He's been a lower-court judge and acted like one for these past 19 years," said Neal K. Katyal, a former acting United States solicitor general.
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Eric Feigin, assistant to the solicitor general, said successive prosecutions are often inappropriate and reserved only for instances when the federal government's interest hasn't been vindicated.
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The Department of Justice filed an amicus brief in June supporting the companies, and sent the deputy Solicitor General, Jeffrey Wall, to argue the case Monday.
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Mike Lee and the son of Reagan Solicitor General Rex Lee, Thomas Lee, 249, has been on the Utah Supreme Court since his appointment by Gov.
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Ranjit Kumar, solicitor general of India, told the court that the federal government was committed to the new rules and opposes any stay on their implementation.
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In urging the Supreme Court to take prompt action, Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco said the appeals court's ruling had already caused chaos at the border.
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A comprehensive new study from two law students at Yale shows that routinely granting argument time to the solicitor general is a recent and curious phenomenon.
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"You are dealing with a potentially indelible smearing of our law enforcement institutions," said Neal K. Katyal, who was acting solicitor general under President Barack Obama.
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However, Solicitor General Noel Francisco said in the emergency stay filing with the high court Friday that the greater danger is of chaos at the border.
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Relying on Justice Gorsuch's partial dissent, Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco urged the justices to stop the trial while the Supreme Court considered the government's petition.
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In London, British Solicitor General Robert Buckland said May would "listen carefully" to any constructive suggestions made by the EU on the length of the extension.
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In November, Trump's solicitor general argued in front of the Supreme Court that employers should be able to fire trans people simply for their gender identity.
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Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco, who represented the Trump administration's position on the issue, argued that Congress, not the courts, should change the law, she noted.
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"This case is governed by precedent that this Court has declined to overrule," Jeffrey B. Wall, the acting United States solicitor general, told the Supreme Court.
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When Roberts served in that office, from 1989-1993, he was principal deputy to Solicitor General Ken Starr, now on the defense team representing President Trump.
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That case prompted a constitutional crisis that ended when Robert Bork, the solicitor general, acceded to Mr. Nixon's order and fired Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor.
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Neal Katyal, who served as the Acting Solicitor General under President Obama, was among investors in the series B round alongside Menlo Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.
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The U.S. Solicitor General, the Justice Department official who represents the government before the Supreme Court, came down on the side of the PLO on Feb.
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"What was impending was a nationwide launch of Juul ... it (the government) chose to act immediately," additional solicitor general Aman Lekhi told the court in Kolkata.
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"The alert was issued in error to the public during a routine training exercise," Ontario's Solicitor-General Sylvia Jones said in a statement, according to Reuters.
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"The Fifth Circuit's decision itself does not warrant immediate review because it did not definitively resolve any question of practical consequence," Solicitor General Noel Francisco wrote.
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Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) asked Sessions if he'd advise his solicitor general to weigh in should the Supreme Court consider a repeal of Roe v. Wade.
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Justice Elena Kagan had recused herself for prior work on the case as United States solicitor general and the late Justice Antonin Scalia's seat remains vacant.
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US Solicitor General Noel Francisco argued that when Congress and state legislatures expanded legal protections for LGBTQ individuals, they'd usually paired it with religious-based exceptions.
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Michael R. Dreeben, who serves as the Justice Department's deputy solicitor general, is working on a part-time basis for Mueller, The Washington Post reported Friday.
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How much Kavanaugh may have influenced the selection and confirmation of Tymkovich, a former Colorado state solicitor general, is not clear from the Kavanaugh correspondence released.
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Justice Elena Kagan recused herself from the case, presumably because she dealt with the case in her previous job as solicitor general during the Obama administration.
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"To impose a rigid six-month rule like the Court of Appeals did is really a mistake," acting Solicitor General Ian Gershengorn said in November 2016.
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After the decision was issued, the government told the court that it would modify and reissue its May order, said P. S. Narasimha, a solicitor general.
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When the Civil Division proposed intervening in the New York case, the Office of the Solicitor General was initially skeptical about getting involved, the person said.
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Neal Katyal, former acting solicitor general, decried the White House's attacks on members of Congress who traveled with him to Puerto Rico over the weekend. 2.
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On February 28, the day of Trump's complaints on Twitter, Sessions had a very public night out at dinner with Rosenstein and Solicitor General Noel Francisco.
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A brief filed by Donald B. Verrilli Jr., the solicitor general, argued that the Newman decision effectively rewrote the requirements in the Dirks case for proving tipping.
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Jeffrey Wall, Mr Trump's acting solicitor-general, was unflappable in running down every question 13 Fourth Circuit judges threw his way in its hearing on May 8th.
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The brief was actually filed by James Ho, Cruz's successor as Texas solicitor general, one year after Cruz left that office to return to private law practice.
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Soon after the memo was issued, Acting Solicitor General Jeff Wall filed court papers saying that it resolved "any doubt" about the effective date of the order.
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In an investigation like Mueller's, former U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli said appeals lawyers would help determine whether the conduct being examined violates sometimes complex federal laws.
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In a show of solidarity with the Justice Department, he dined with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Solicitor General Noel Francisco the evening of Trump's attack.
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A tape of the conversation, which was leaked to the press, confirms that Mr Temer did ask Mr Calero to bring the solicitor-general into the dispute.
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VanDyke is former solicitor general of both Montana and Nevada, but the ABA letter about his fitness for the federal bench was particularly harsh on his temperament.
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Edward C. DuMont, California's solicitor general, arguing in support of the union, did not dispute that collective bargaining involved political issues that implicate workers' First Amendment rights.
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But now that this case is before the Supreme Court, per typical procedure, the solicitor general at the Justice Department has taken over to represent the government.
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"Under your argument, could the President grant deferred removal to every unlawful -- unlawfully present alien in the United States right now?" he asked Solicitor General Donald Verrilli.
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To matters more ironic, when Cruz was solicitor general of Texas, his office filed a 76-page defense of the state's ban on sex toys in 2007.
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Solicitor General Noel Francisco, arguing (for the government) that the ban should be allowed to continue, gave a strong performance that stuck to his side's strongest arguments.
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Jeffrey Wall, the acting solicitor general, explained the change plainly: "[S]ince the change in administration, the office reconsidered the issue and has reached the opposite conclusion".
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Earlier this month, Dominion's Chief Executive Thomas Farrell said it would increase the chances the court will hear the case if the Solicitor General joins the appeal.
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Mr. Cruz, a conservative former Texas solicitor general, was campaigning as a populist firebrand who criticized Wall Street bailouts and the influence of big banks in Washington.
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A journalistic investigation into Cruz's days as solicitor general of Texas has turned into a wider inquiry into the presidential candidate's self-pleasuring as a college student.
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University of Texas, since Justice Elena Kagan recused herself (she had been involved in an earlier iteration of the case as solicitor general for the Obama administration).
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions has hired Chuck Cooper, a top lawyer who was recently considered for solicitor general, to represent him, National Law Journal's Katelyn Polantz reports.
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ABUJA (Reuters) - A Nigerian court has granted the government permission to label a local Shi'ite Muslim group a terrorist organisation, the solicitor general told Reuters on Saturday.
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Cox wasn't fired until then-Solicitor General Robert Bork — later a failed nominee to the Supreme Court — agreed to do what the other two officials would not.
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The top public prosecutor and the government's solicitor general, who have both defended the current rule, will have the closing arguments before the justices cast their votes.
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George Conway, the husband of White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway and who was once a top candidate to be the administration's solicitor general, lamented the President's remarks.
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PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images Kagan joined the Supreme Court in 2010 after serving as the first female solicitor general of the U.S. for one year.
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The minister leading those negotiations, Solicitor General Robert Buckland, said the ruling minority Conservative government was standing by its own proposal, rejected by party rebels last week.
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In defending the policy at the Supreme Court, Donald Verrilli, the solicitor-general, pressed the case for not breaking up families where some children are American citizens.
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In his filing, acting Solicitor General Jeff Wall said DOJ was only asking for a stay for the lower court ruling as it applies to the refugees.
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The former appellate lawyer, who worked for 11 years as an assistant in the Office of the Solicitor General, has argued 85033 cases before the Supreme Court.
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With Nixon (and future Trump) henchman Roger Stone unavailable, Solicitor General Robert Bork was carted over to the White House by limousine to do Nixon's wet work.
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Starr, a former solicitor general and federal judge, was the independent counsel who delivered a report that led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton in 1998.
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Neal Katyal, who served as acting solicitor general during the Obama administration and has co-written opinion pieces with George Conway, on Monday concurred with his implication.
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CNN reported that other possible contenders include former D.C. Circuit Court Judge Janice Rogers Brown, former DOJ Official John Michael Luttig, Solicitor General Noel Francisco and Rep.
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On Thursday, José Eduardo Cardozo, the solicitor general, said that his office had appealed to the Supreme Federal Tribunal in an attempt to block the impeachment proceedings.
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Here's what's facing the court: Asylum ban Solicitor General Noel Francisco has asked the Supreme Court to allow a presidential proclamation targeting asylum to go into effect.
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The Supreme Court announced last month it will hear the case this term after the solicitor general ripped a district court judge's ruling against the citizenship question.
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"You don't want to speculate on a case that doesn't exist and probably will never exist," outgoing U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli told MSNBC with a laugh.
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In a request filed with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Wednesday, Solicitor General Noel Francisco asked that the Supreme Court put the district court ruling on hold.
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Brazil's solicitor-general, André Luiz Mendonça, has personally met with STF President Toffoli, and Petrobras lawyers have also been at the STF to defend the company's position.
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The solicitor general could genuinely believe that removing these judges is inherently connected to appointing them and wants the Supreme Court to clarify, as Krent pointed out.
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AND MAY IT PING THE COURT: Vice got a hold of a few emails from Supreme Court justices to the office of the Solicitor General on Monday.
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The TAG divestment, for instance, had previously been given the go-ahead by Brazil's second highest court, the Supreme Judicial Court, and by the nation's solicitor-general.
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Tonight at 7:35pm, the Attorney General strode into a high-end Washington restaurant to dine with his deputy Rod Rosenstein and the Solicitor General Noel Francisco.
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The case began in November, when Trump's solicitor general asked the Supreme Court to stay a ruling from a federal judge in Hawaii who blocked the ban.
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The lawyer, veteran Supreme Court attorney Paul Clement, is generally known for his advocacy of conservative positions, and served as solicitor general under President George W. Bush.
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But if Trump fires Rosenstein, the special counsel investigation falls to the next Senate-confirmed person in line, which, in this case, is Solicitor General Noel Francisco.
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But the state attorney general, Letitia James, who oversees the solicitor general, said in a statement several hours later that the bill afforded "ample protections" for immigrants.
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The Senate confirmed Francisco as solicitor general, the lawyer who represents the government's agenda before the Supreme Court, in September on a 50-47 party-line vote.
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Instead, it would fall to U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco, according to an internal Justice Department memo on succession from November 2016 that is still in effect.
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Solicitor General Noel Francisco argued to the court that the arrangement is undemocratic, because a director who operates under such protections is not answerable to the president.
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"It's a sad reflection of the politicization of the Supreme Court," said Philip Lacovara, a former deputy solicitor general and lead counsel to the Watergate special prosecutor.
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On Saturday, a former acting solicitor general of the United States, Neal Katyal, tweeted that it was "literally unfathomable" that the President would retweet such a thing.
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Others said Justice Elena Kagan should not hear the case because she may have been involved in aspects of it when she was United States solicitor general.
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After she became New York's solicitor general in 2007, Ms. Underwood once fought to uphold a state law that barred prison inmates from suing state corrections officers.
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In fact, the commissioner who made the comment was Diann Rice, according to Frederick Yarger, the Colorado solicitor general, who subsequently notified the court of the error.
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Elizabeth Murrill, Louisiana's solicitor general, spent most of her time arguing that the court had been wrong to require unanimous juries in either state or federal court.
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Rosenstein resurfaced as a source of the President's wrath because of photo of him dining with Sessions and Solicitor General Noel Francisco at a popular Washington restaurant.
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Jeffrey Wall, the Acting Solicitor General representing the government, asked the court to consider, for example, credible threats of a terrorist attack from an unknown Libyan national.
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Last week, Solicitor General Francisco filed a brief urging the justices to stay their hand and let the case continue to play out in the lower courts.
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Responding to West Virginia Solicitor General Elbert Lin's contention that the EPA is trying to implement "a new energy economy," leaving the energy landscape unrecognizable, Tatel disagreed.
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And in what some view as a positive step towards review, on Monday, the Court asked the acting U.S. Solicitor General to weigh in on the case.
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Given Trump's long-standing frustrations with Sessions, other potential contenders have cropped up in Trump-friendly circles in recent months, including Whitaker, Solicitor General Noel Francisco, Rep.
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Hawaii, No. 17-965, was argued for the Trump administration by Noel J. Francisco, the solicitor general, and for the state of Hawaii by Neal K. Katyal.
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Cruz, a constitutional lawyer and former Texas solicitor general, has maintained that he is eligible to be president, noting the distinction between naturalized and natural-born citizen.
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In addition to Christie and Barr, Trump is eyeing Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, outgoing Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and Solicitor General Noel Francisco.
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The lawyers include former US Solicitor General Ted Olson; Emmet Flood, who's worked for multiple presidents; and Robert Bennett, Bill Clinton's attorney in the Paula Jones litigation.
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"I'm getting wheezy with this back and forth," Chief Justice John Roberts said as justices pressed US assistant solicitor general Michael Huston to clarify the government's position.
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"Because the no-aid provision contravenes the U.S. Constitution, the state court had no authority to enforce it," Solicitor General Noel Francisco said in a court filing.
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In Friday's court filing, acting U.S. Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall said the Supreme Court should find that class action waivers are legal and enforceable under federal law.
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Jeff Wall, another clerk, is Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States, arguing cases before the Supreme Court and helping to navigate the administration's appellate strategy.
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"You can't read this record without sensing that this need is a contrived one," she told US Solicitor General Noel Francisco, representing Ross and the Commerce Department.
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On the one hand, there are those who say an aggressive solicitor general is coming to the Supreme Court with increasing frequency to ask for emergency relief.
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Arnold & Porter named Allon Kedem, former assistant to the U.S. solicitor general at the Department of Justice, as a partner in its appellate and Supreme Court practice.
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In the Thursday request from Solicitor General Noel Francisco, the administration asked the court to do the same for an injunction imposed by an Illinois district court.
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UK solicitor general Robert Buckland told the court it should decline to issue any opinion on the matter, which he argued was better suited to bilateral negotiations.
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"The solicitor general probably makes more strategic calls about whether and how to appeal in a year than any other lawyer makes in a life time," he said.
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"These tweets may make some ppl feel better, but they certainly won't help [the solicitor general] get 5 votes in [the Supreme Court], which is what actually matters."
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President Donald Trump will nominate Washington lawyer Noel Francisco to be solicitor general, the government's top advocate before the U.S. Supreme Court, the White House said on Tuesday.
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Solicitor General Noel Francisco and Dominion argued in their filings on Tuesday that the Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision in the Cowpasture v.
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Ted Cruz, a former solicitor general, even went so far Saturday night as to demand that the perpetrator be prosecuted for domestic terrorism by the Department of Justice.
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However, acting Solicitor General Noel Francisco is an experienced litigator, and Trump's pick to lead the Justice Department, Jeff Sessions, assumed the office of attorney general on Thursday.
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Solicitor-General Jose Calida, an ally of Duterte, said he had asked Sereno's Supreme Court peers to cancel her 2012 appointment for violations of court rules and procedures.
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The Senate confirmed Francisco as solicitor general, the lawyer who represents the government's agenda before the Supreme Court, in September 2017 on a 50-47 party-line vote.
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But Deputy Solicitor General Luke Berg have insisted the confession was legitimate, noting that the investigators who had questioned him about Halbach's murder never made any explicit promises.
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On the other side was the Trump administration, which dispatched the solicitor general, as well as powerful business interests including the Chamber of Commerce and associations representing bankers.
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In court briefs, Solicitor General Noel Francisco said he wanted to put that official's testimony in perspective and reiterate that October "would only be feasible " with exceptional resources.
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Solicitor General Noel Francisco on Monday sought the high court's intervention after a Manhattan federal judge and an appeals court last week both refused to postpone the trial.
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Solicitor General Noel Francisco began his arguments on Tuesday by stressing that for roughly 200 years, the US government had asked about citizenship in one way or another.
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Chuang referred to Korematsu on Monday because at the time it was argued, the US solicitor general knew about an intelligence report that undermined the rationale for internment.
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Katyal, the former acting solicitor general in the Obama administration, asked the justices in Monday's filing to hear Hidalgo's case, and to strike down Arizona's death penalty law.
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"And you would not think that an affront to the gay community?" he asked Solicitor General Noel Francisco, a lawyer for the Trump administration, which has backed Phillips.
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The attorney-general who cleared Najib of wrongdoing in the 1MDB affair, Mohamed Apandi Ali, would be put on leave and replaced by the solicitor-general, he said.
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Appearing for India's Hindu nationalist government, Additional Solicitor General Pinky Anand had argued last month that adultery should remain a criminal offense to ensure the sanctity of marriage.
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Such were the times that he made headlines later that year when Paul Webb, Fulton County's solicitor general, appointed him as a crime investigator, breaking the color barrier.
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In one of his first filings as acting-solicitor general, Ian Heath Gershengorn agreed in court papers that it is "exceedingly rare" for the court to grant rehearing.
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During February's hearing, Deputy Solicitor General Luke Berg said the confession was legitimate, noting the investigators who had questioned him about Halbach's murder never made any explicit promises.
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Liberal Justice Elena Kagan, who was U.S. solicitor general in the Obama administration when it backed the university in lower-court litigation, took no part in the decision.
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The Gwinnett County Solicitor-General has dismissed that case against Hollins along with 88 other cases in which Bongiovanni and McDonald were the principal officers or necessary witnesses.
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It's unlikely that the Justice Department and acting Solicitor General Ian Gershengorn will be able to fulfill the Supreme Court's request before President Obama leaves office on Jan.
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Former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement is advising House Republicans pro bono on the case, and the brief is expected to be filed soon by the House counsel.
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Underwood was appointed solicitor general in 2007 by Cuomo, who said that the person in that role automatically becomes acting attorney general in the event of a vacancy.
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Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr., the government's top appellate lawyer, opened the arguments with a vigorous defense of Mr. Obama's authority to set priorities for immigration enforcement.
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Since last year, George Conway, a prominent attorney whom Trump considered nominating for solicitor general, has been posting and retweeting tweets that have been critical of the President.
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Barr said in the 2001 interview he wanted the Bush Justice Department to attack the constitutionality of the FCA but was opposed by then-Solicitor General Kenneth Starr.
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At the sentencing hearing, the state solicitor general, Benjamin Harrell, a young, white attorney, played the clips of Cherry hitting Seth and reënacting the encounter the next day.
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Michigan Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud took over the case in January and said previous prosecutors had not taken advantage of all available evidence, according to The Associated Press.
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In leapfrogging regular judicial order, Solicitor General Noel Francisco asked the justices in November to hear its appeal of the district court rulings against the ban this term.
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Brazil's solicitor-general, André Luiz Mendonça, has personally met with STF President Dias Toffoli, and Petrobras lawyers have also been at the STF to defend the company's position.
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"All of us were shocked when the solicitor general filed a brief that devoted 17 pages to the argument that the court said not to address," Pierce said.
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Sir Ross Cranston, who is also a former MP and solicitor general, will assess whether the scheme that has awarded millions of pounds in compensation was conducted fairly.
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In briefs, Solicitor General Noel Francisco said that the lower court opinion "raises federalism concerns" and "produces untenable results" by blocking a state from enforcing identity threat prosecutions.
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Neither Murrill nor US Principal Deputy Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall, who defended the law on behalf of the Trump administration, was able to give Roberts a straight answer.
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Kyle D. Hawkins, the solicitor general of Texas, who was representing a coalition of more than 30 states, urged the justices to leave the current system in place.
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The solicitor general now argues that the administration is not preventing Jane Doe from getting an abortion, because she can choose to go back where she came from.
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In a court filing last week, U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco, representing Trump in court, said those retweets "do not address the meaning" of the travel ban policy.
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"Every census question will decrease response rates," said Mithun Mansinghani, the solicitor general of Oklahoma, which filed a brief supporting the Trump administration along with 16 other states.
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In his brief urging the Supreme Court to hear the case, Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco wrote that the president has vast constitutional and statutory authority over immigration.
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"I'm prepared to concede that complications do not happen very often," said Deputy Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall, who argued on behalf of the Trump administration on Louisiana's side.
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For now, at least, a woman will lead the office: The state solicitor general, Barbara D. Underwood, will assume Mr. Schneiderman's position until the Legislature chooses a successor.
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And soon enough Ms. Underwood went on to take a job as the chief lieutenant to Seth P. Waxman, the United States solicitor general under President Bill Clinton.
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"They wholly undercut the idea that there is some rational process behind the president's decisions," said Walter E. Dellinger, who served as acting solicitor general under Mr. Clinton.
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All four liberal justices dug in against Texas Solicitor General Scott Keller as he argued that the Texas law was intended to improve the safety of abortion clinics.
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Solicitor General Noel Francisco appealed that ruling to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to allow the rule to go into effect while the appeals process played out.
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Loren AliKhan, the D.C. solicitor general, told the court that there are a number of appropriate remedies to address what she sees as a violation of the Constitution.
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The third introduction, though, came from a less typical source: Neal K. Katyal, a well-known liberal lawyer who served as acting solicitor general in the Obama administration.
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Assistant US Solicitor General Eric Feigin, representing the federal government during the hour-long arguments, sided in large part with Virginia, for limited effect of the Miller ruling.
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"This is the type of issue that is better left to Congress than the courts," Solicitor General Noel Francisco, arguing in favor of the employers, told the court.
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The four remained clearly unmoved by the array of increasingly strained arguments offered by Paul Clement, a former United States solicitor general, to keep his clients' case alive.
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The government's attorney, Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler, argued it does because burglary presents a substantial risk that physical force will be used against the victim or property.
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Regulated firms will be shocked and angered to learn that the Republican solicitor general is trying to persuade the court to eliminate or to emasculate that statutory safeguard.
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The court called for the views of the solicitor general (CVSG) prior to considering a full review of a patent dispute between smartphone manufacturing giants Samsung and Apple.
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Roberts, 63, has known Kavanaugh since the early 1990s when he was a deputy US solicitor general and Kavanaugh, 10 years younger, had a fellowship in the office.
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Washington (CNN)Former Solicitor General Ken Starr said Friday Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's reputation for judicial temperament is "unblemished" after emotional testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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In the administration's Supreme Court brief, Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco wrote that Judge Chutkan's ruling was at odds with common sense and could lead to absurd results.
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"We don't truly know what the agency would do if confronted with a discretionary choice," said California Solicitor General Michael Mongan, representing states and local governments supporting DACA.
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"There are some people who are very concerned given the 19-page memo that he wrote," said Neal Katyal, who was acting solicitor general under President Barack Obama.
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The court's liberals, led by Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Elena Kagan, grilled Texas Solicitor General Keller about what, exactly, was so unprecedented about the 2014 immigration actions.
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A former appeals court judge and solicitor general, he didn't have the experience a prosecutor has in figuring when it's worth looking into something and when it's not.
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The DOJ's lawyer, acting solicitor general Jeffrey Wall, argued that Trump's statements should not be held against him because they were made before he took the oath of office.
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Washington (CNN)A potential nominee to serve as the Trump administration's solicitor general -- the lawyer who argues the government's position before the Supreme Court -- withdrew from consideration Thursday night.
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The environmental groups that brought those challenges were deemed inappropriate parties to bring a lawsuit about transferring federal funds, an argument put forth by U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco.
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Final grade: B+ Theodore B. Olson is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Washington, D.C. office and served as US Solicitor General during the presidency of George W. Bush.
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At that time, Mr. Cruz was campaigning in Texas for the United States Senate, describing his work as solicitor general as epic battles for conservative principles, including tort reform.
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