Names in the wind include Jennifer Granholm, the governor of Michigan, and Elena Kagan, the solicitor-general.
But the solicitor-general said he was not challenging the law on the grounds that it would discriminate against Latinos.
You wouldn't choose Mr Wolfowitz to be solicitor-general, a position for a lawyer.
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Conservative MP, former Solicitor-General and former Sun libel reader Edward Garnier has already put down an amendment to strike it down.
For the moment Elena Kagan, the solicitor-general and a former dean of Harvard Law School, appears at the top of this list.
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".
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.
The right is generally happy to devolve decisions about education or health care to the states, notes Charles Fried, a professor of law at Harvard and former solicitor-general, but not product-liability rules and other forms of business regulation.
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He also asked Elena Kagan, the well-regarded dean of Harvard Law School, to be solicitor-general, which increased speculation about her possible appointment to the Supreme Court, should one of the justices leave Mr Obama with a vacancy to fill.
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.
Tory MP Sir Edward Garnier - a former solicitor general - said legal aid should not be immune from widespread cuts.
Mr Obama signed off on the brief, written for the administration by Solicitor General Donald Verrilli - the man who argued the case for the Mr Obama's healthcare reform act before the Supreme Court in 2012.
Mr. Cruz, a 42-year-old former Texas solicitor general, followed with about 34% of the vote.
President Obama has nominated Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan to become Solicitor General, a stepping-stone some believe for her appointment to the Supreme Court.
Just this past April, the Solicitor General submitted a vigorous anti-preemption amicus brief in the Supreme Court in Williamson v.
Three Court of Appeal judges agreed with Solicitor General Oliver Heald that the original 12-month suspended jail term was "unduly lenient" and would not act as a deterrent to others.
The main attorneys will be Clement on one side, representing the 26-state coalition opposing the law, and Solicitor General Donald Verrilli on the other, defending the law.
Wal-Mart would have a better shot if the Solicitor General supported bringing the case before the Supreme Court.
Dewhurst's challenger in the runoff will be tea party favorite Ted Cruz, a former solicitor general with strong support from national groups and high-profile conservative leaders.
Both sides filed detailed motions with the court and even argued their case in a pre-trial hearing that featured former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement in December.
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These are traits that she happens to share with the last Solicitor General who went on to become a Supreme Court Justice -- one for whom Elena clerked, and whom she considers one of her heroes -- Justice Thurgood Marshall.
Former Solicitor General Theodore Olson, a conservative who took up the gay-marriage cause to lead the challenge to the California measure, was set to argue for 20 minutes before the justices.
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.
But in a 73-page report by South African judge Steven Majiedt and India's solicitor general Goolam Vahanvati, the allegations were rejected.
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Judge Kaplan did poke holes in some of the arguments made by big shot lawyers like former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement on behalf of Campos and Elie at the December pre-trial hearing.
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Chief Justice John Roberts put the question crisply the other way when he asked Solicitor General Donald Verrilli if Congress would have violated state powers if in 1996 it had instead adopted same-sex marriage at the federal level?
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