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24 Jan 2009, 11:39 am
The three obvious candidates are Elena Kagan (SG), Sonia Sotomayor (CA2), and Diane Wood (CA7). [read post]
24 Jan 2009, 10:05 am
Introducing three brand new SG partners.3. [read post]
20 Jan 2009, 1:45 pm
Katyal to follow Kagan to SG’s office: On Saturday, Legal Times reported that Georgetown law prof Neal Katyal, of Hamdan v. [read post]
18 Jan 2009, 5:24 pm
Might there be a real chance that the SG's views on acquitted conduct enhancements or the application of Booker or mandatory minimums might change in the months and years ahead? [read post]
18 Jan 2009, 4:45 pm
"Katyal Tapped as Principal Deputy in SG's Office": Joe Palazzolo has this post at "The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times. [read post]
16 Jan 2009, 3:05 pm
"Kneedler Named Acting SG As Garre Leaves to Teach at George Washington Law": Tony Mauro has this post at "The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times. [read post]
13 Jan 2009, 9:00 pm
One of my law professors who worked in the Solicitor General's Office during the Meese years suggested that his work for the SG's office was hardly similar to working more directly with Meese and his influence. [read post]
13 Jan 2009, 5:23 am
Georgetown University law professor Richard Lazarus -- currently visiting at Harvard -- the appointment of Kagan represents a "return to the mold" of earlier solicitors general, most of whom arrived from academia or the bench with little or no appellate experience.It was not until Seth Waxman's appointment by President Bill Clinton in 1997, Lazarus says, that a new trend began of drawing SGs from the ranks of private firms, where they had honed litigating or appellate… [read post]
12 Jan 2009, 5:08 am
In his brief, the SG argued that Harbison did not need a COA because his appeal is not a part of a habeas corpus proceeding as defined by the statute; a request for clemency counsel does not necessarily implicate federal legal questions or the denial of a constitutional right. [read post]
11 Jan 2009, 3:24 pm
His confirmation battle in 2001 to become SG was long and drawn out, due in large part to a scandal involving his ties to the American Spectator and his active efforts to derail the Clinton administration. [read post]
11 Jan 2009, 3:08 am
This week at the Supreme Court: In the wake of Friday's filing of the SG's merits brief in Denedo, we are unaware of any anticipated military justice developments at SCOTUS this week.This week at CAAF: CAAF will hear two oral arguments tomorrow. [read post]
9 Jan 2009, 11:20 am
I've posted a copy of the SG's Denedo merits brief on CAAFlog.com. [read post]
9 Jan 2009, 9:39 am
The Denedo brief isn't yet posted on the SG's web site. [read post]
7 Jan 2009, 11:49 pm
A Peek at SG Nominee Kagan's Law School Transcript, Recommendations
Legal Times
The praise coming from Harvard Law School colleagues of Dean Elena Kagan, who was named this week to be the next solicitor general, is effusive -- and, it turns out, long-standing. [read post]
7 Jan 2009, 11:01 am
Via Tony Mauro, we learn something that might interest the law students in the VC readership: The first-year law school grades of Harvard Law School Dean (and SG nominee) Elena... [read post]
6 Jan 2009, 5:01 pm
You thought this post was about the other SG?] [read post]
6 Jan 2009, 8:14 am
Still more proof that federal courts have no real interest in gun rights An argument that the Second Amendment and Heller should help Weldon Angelos Former SG Ted Olson suggests Heller could impact broad prohibitions on felon gun rights District Court rejects Second Amendment claim from misdemeanant Another (too?) [read post]
6 Jan 2009, 7:59 am
"Many solicitors general have come to the position without that experience, and it wasn't held against them," adds Millett, an Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld partner who served in the SG's office until September 2007. [read post]
5 Jan 2009, 5:27 pm
And at "The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times," Tony Mauro has a post titled "'Superstar' Elena Kagan Is Named SG. [read post]
5 Jan 2009, 11:37 am
Elena Kagan, current dean of Harvard Law School, sent the following email to all HLS alumni today: Dear colleagues and friends: I am writing to all of you - the community of students, faculty, staff, and alumni of Harvard Law School - to let you know that today President-elect Barack Obama will announce his intention to nominate me to serve as Solicitor General of the United States. [read post]
