In her role as solicitor general, she represents the U.S. in litigation at the Supreme Court level.
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Gore, and was rewarded by President Bush with an appointment as Solicitor General.
Justice Elena Kagan took no part in the consideration of the case, presumably because she dealt with it in her former job as Solicitor General.
Justice Elena Kagan will not hear this case, because as solicitor general, before taking the bench last year, she had been involved in the administration's initial legal opposition to the law.
With this case, there is a wild card: Justice Elena Kagan may recuse herself (not participate in the decision) because she was previously involved with the Gill case as Solicitor General.
Further, conservatives have noted their belief that Justice Elena Kagan, an Obama appointee, has an ethical conflict due to having served as Solicitor General for the Obama Administration when the first cases challenging the law were at the trial court level.
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Lord Archer of Sandwell, who served as Solicitor-General during the Wilson and Callaghan governments, argues military action without new UN authority would be "flagrantly unlawful".
Conservative justices took a greater voice in the second half of the arguments as former Solicitor General Theodore Olson stepped to the lectern to challenge Proposition 8.
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During her confirmation as solicitor-general, she agreed with a Republican inquisitor that America is at war with terrorists, and she appeared to agree that an al-Qaeda financier captured in, say, the Philippines, can be held indefinitely as an enemy combatant.
For all that the Solicitor General serves as the public face of the office, and as an important senior political appointee, the career employees act as its principal representatives to the Court.
So I hope that the Senate will act in a bipartisan fashion, as they did in confirming Elena to be our Solicitor General last year, and that they will do so as swiftly as possible, so she can get busy and take her seat in time to fully participate in the work of the Court this fall.
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But the sentence was viewed as far too low by the Solicitor General, Oliver Heald, who referred the case to three senior judges.
It is not clear whether it will be struck down, but the questions that the conservative Justices posed to Clement were not nearly as pressing as the ones they asked to Solicitor General Verilli.
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Mrs Williams, 59, from Chester, said she was not surprised by the attorney general's decision as her solicitor had already warned her it might be the case.
Apart from getting rid of Mr Cook, a major irritant, it has brought back Brown loyalists sacked in the first term, such as Harriet Harman, now given the job of solicitor-general.
W. Bush won the Presidency, in 1988, his new Solicitor General, Kenneth Starr, hired Roberts again, this time as his principal deputy.
Solicitor General Ted Olson spoke with CNN on the issue of citizen's rights, as well as the loss of his wife, Barbara Olson, who was killed in the plane that struck the Pentagon.
And the notion that a -- she received a strong, bipartisan vote for being the Solicitor General, for being the person that represented the interest of the American people and the government as they argued in front of the Supreme Court.
In a brief submitted to the Supreme Court last week and reported by the Volokh Conspiracy and others, the Office of the Solicitor General argued forcefully that courts have no business deciding a policy question of such breadth and potential impact as the regulation of CO2 emissions.
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