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Solicitor General of the United States

Index Solicitor General of the United States

The United States Solicitor General is the fourth-highest-ranking official in the U.S. Department of Justice. [1]

104 relations: Alexander Campbell King, Amicus curiae, Archibald Cox, Barack Obama, Barbara Underwood, Benjamin Bristow, Benjamin Harrison, Bill Clinton, Brown v. Board of Education, Calvin Coolidge, Certiorari, Charles Evans Hughes Jr., Charles Fahy, Charles Fried, Charles H. Aldrich, Chief Justice of the United States, Confession of error, Daniel Mortimer Friedman, Donald B. Ayer, Donald B. Verrilli Jr., Donald Trump, Drew S. Days III, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Edwin Kneedler, Elena Kagan, Erwin Griswold, Federal government of the United States, Francis Biddle, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Frederick William Lehmann, George A. Jenks, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Gregory G. Garre, Grover Cleveland, Harry S. Truman, Henry M. Hoyt (Solicitor General), Herbert Hoover, Holmes Conrad, Ian Heath Gershengorn, J. Howard McGrath, J. Lee Rankin, James Crawford Biggs, James M. Beck, Jeff Wall (lawyer), Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy, John Goode, John K. Richards, ..., John Roberts, John W. Davis, Ken Starr, Lawrence Maxwell Jr., Leondra Kruger, Lloyd Wheaton Bowers, Lyndon B. Johnson, Michael Dreeben, Neal Katyal, Noel Francisco, Orlow W. Chapman, Paul Bender, Paul Clement, Paul M. Bator, Philip Elman, Philip Perlman, President of the United States, Procedures of the Supreme Court of the United States, Rex E. Lee, Richard Nixon, Robert Bork, Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, Robert H. Jackson, Ronald Reagan, Samuel Alito, Samuel F. Phillips, Seth P. Waxman, Simon Sobeloff, Solicitor General of the United States, Sri Srinivasan, Stanley Forman Reed, Supreme Court of the United States, Tailcoat, The Post-Standard, Theodore Olson, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas D. Thacher, Thurgood Marshall, Ulysses S. Grant, United States Attorney General, United States Department of Justice, United States Senate, United States Supreme Court Building, Wade H. McCree, Walter E. Dellinger III, Walter J. Cummings Jr., Warren G. Harding, William Curtis Bryson, William D. Mitchell, William Howard Taft, William L. Frierson, William Marshall Bullitt, William McKinley, Woodrow Wilson. Expand index (54 more) »

Alexander Campbell King

Alexander Campbell King (December 7, 1856 – July 25, 1926) was Solicitor General of the United States and later a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

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Amicus curiae

An amicus curiae (literally, "friend of the court"; plural, amici curiae) is someone who is not a party to a case and may or may not have been solicited by a party, who assists a court by offering information, expertise, or insight that has a bearing on the issues in the case, and is typically presented in the form of a brief.

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Archibald Cox

Archibald "Archie" Cox Jr. (May 17, 1912 – May 29, 2004) was an American lawyer and law professor who served as U.S. Solicitor General under President John F. Kennedy and later as a special prosecutor during the Watergate scandal.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.

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Barbara Underwood

Barbara Dale Underwood (born August 16, 1944) is an American lawyer serving as the New York State Attorney General since May 8, 2018.

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Benjamin Bristow

Benjamin Helm Bristow (June 20, 1832 – June 22, 1896) was the 30th U.S. Treasury Secretary, the first Solicitor General, an American lawyer, a Union military officer, Republican Party politician, reformer, and civil rights advocate.

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Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 23rd President of the United States from 1889 to 1893.

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Bill Clinton

William Jefferson Clinton (born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

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Brown v. Board of Education

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.

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Calvin Coolidge

John Calvin Coolidge Jr. (July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was an American politician and the 30th President of the United States (1923–1929).

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Certiorari

Certiorari, often abbreviated cert. in the United States, is a process for seeking judicial review and a writ issued by a court that agrees to review.

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Charles Evans Hughes Jr.

Charles Evans Hughes Jr. (November 30, 1889 – January 21, 1950) was the United States Solicitor General in 1929–1930.

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Charles Fahy

Charles Fahy (August 27, 1892 – September 17, 1979) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as Solicitor General of the United States and later as a United States federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

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Charles Fried

Charles Fried (born April 15, 1935) is an American jurist and lawyer.

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Charles H. Aldrich

Charles Henry Aldrich (August 28, 1850, LaGrange County, Indiana – April 13, 1929, Chicago) was a Solicitor General of the United States.

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Chief Justice of the United States

The Chief Justice of the United States is the chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States and thus the head of the United States federal court system, which functions as the judicial branch of the nation's federal government.

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Confession of error

Confession of error is a legal practice whereby the United States Solicitor General in his or her role representing the federal government before the Supreme Court of the United States admits a lower court incorrectly decided a case and it is thereby sent back for reconsideration.

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Daniel Mortimer Friedman

Daniel Mortimer Friedman (February 8, 1916 – July 6, 2011) was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and previously was Chief Judge of the United States Court of Claims.

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Donald B. Ayer

Donald Belton Ayer (born April 30, 1949) was the United States Deputy Attorney General from 1989 to May 1990, under Republican President George H.W. Bush.

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Donald B. Verrilli Jr.

Donald Beaton Verrilli Jr. (born June 29, 1957) is an American lawyer who served as the Solicitor General of the United States from 2011 into 2016.

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Donald Trump

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current President of the United States, in office since January 20, 2017.

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Drew S. Days III

Drew Saunders Days III (born August 29, 1941) is an American lawyer, who served as United States Solicitor General from 1993 to 1996 under President Bill Clinton.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961.

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Edwin Kneedler

Edwin S. Kneedler (born January 4, 1946) is an American lawyer who has served as Deputy United States Solicitor General since 1993.

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Elena Kagan

Elena Kagan (pronounced; born April 28, 1960) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, nominated by President Barack Obama in May 10, 2010 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 5, 2010.

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Erwin Griswold

Erwin Nathaniel Griswold (July 14, 1904 – November 19, 1994) was an appellate attorney who argued many cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Federal government of the United States

The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government) is the national government of the United States, a constitutional republic in North America, composed of 50 states, one district, Washington, D.C. (the nation's capital), and several territories.

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Francis Biddle

Francis Beverley Biddle (May 19, 1886October 4, 1968) was an American lawyer and judge who was Attorney General of the United States during World War II and who served as the primary American judge during the postwar Nuremberg trials.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sr. (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

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Frederick William Lehmann

Frederick William Lehmann (February 28, 1853 – September 12, 1931) was a prominent American lawyer, statesman, United States Solicitor General, and rare book collector.

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George A. Jenks

George Augustus Jenks (March 25, 1836 – February 10, 1908) was a politician from Pennsylvania and Solicitor General.

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George H. W. Bush

George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993.

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George W. Bush

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

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Gerald Ford

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from August 1974 to January 1977.

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Gregory G. Garre

Gregory G. Garre (born November 1, 1964) served as the 44th United States Solicitor General from June 19, 2008, to January 16, 2009.

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Grover Cleveland

Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was an American politician and lawyer who was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, the only president in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office (1885–1889 and 1893–1897).

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Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was an American statesman who served as the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953), taking office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Henry M. Hoyt (Solicitor General)

Henry Martyn Hoyt Jr. (December 5, 1856 – November 20, 1910) served as Solicitor General of the United States from 1903 to 1909.

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Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was an American engineer, businessman and politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression.

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Holmes Conrad

Holmes Conrad (January 31, 1840 – September 4, 1915) was an American politician, lawyer and military officer.

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Ian Heath Gershengorn

Ian Heath Gershengorn (born February 21, 1967) is an American lawyer and former Acting Solicitor General of the United States.

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J. Howard McGrath

James Howard McGrath (November 28, 1903September 2, 1966) was an American politician and attorney from the U.S. state of Rhode Island.

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J. Lee Rankin

James Lee "Lee" Rankin (July 8, 1907 – June 26, 1996) was the 31st United States Solicitor General.

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James Crawford Biggs

James Crawford Biggs (August 29, 1872 – January 30, 1960) was an American lawyer and politician, born in Oxford, North Carolina to William and Elizabeth Arlington (Cooper) Biggs.

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James M. Beck

James Montgomery Beck (July 9, 1861 – April 12, 1936) was an American lawyer and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Jeff Wall (lawyer)

Jeffrey B. Wall is an American attorney who is Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States.

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Jimmy Carter

James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981.

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John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.

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John Goode

John Goode Jr. (May 27, 1829 – July 14, 1909) was a Virginia Democratic politician who served in the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War and then was a three-term postbellum United States Congressman.

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John K. Richards

John Kelvey Richards (March 15, 1856 – March 1, 1909) was an Attorney General of Ohio, the tenth Solicitor General of the United States, and later a United States federal judge.

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John Roberts

John Glover Roberts Jr. (born January 27, 1955) is an American lawyer who serves as the 17th and current Chief Justice of the United States.

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John W. Davis

John William Davis GBE (April 13, 1873 – March 24, 1955) was an American politician, diplomat and lawyer.

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Ken Starr

Kenneth Winston Starr (born July 21, 1946) is an American lawyer who has also been a United States circuit judge and U.S. solicitor general.

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Lawrence Maxwell Jr.

Lawrence Maxwell Jr. was born to parents Lawrence and Alison (Crawford) on May 4, 1853, in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Leondra Kruger

Leondra Reid Kruger (born July 28, 1976) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California, the court's second youngest appointee; and a former Obama administration official.

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Lloyd Wheaton Bowers

Lloyd Wheaton Bowers (March 9, 1859 – September 9, 1910) was an American lawyer.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after having served as the 37th Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963.

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Michael Dreeben

Michael R. Dreeben (born 1954) is the Deputy Solicitor General in charge of the U.S. Department of Justice criminal docket before the United States Supreme Court.

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Neal Katyal

Neal Kumar Katyal (born March 12, 1970) is an American lawyer and partner at Hogan Lovells, as well as Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law at Georgetown University Law Center.

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Noel Francisco

Noel John Francisco (born August 21, 1969) is an American attorney and the current Solicitor General of the United States in the Donald Trump administration.

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Orlow W. Chapman

Orlow W. Chapman (1831 – 19 January 1890) was born in 1832, in Ellington, Connecticut, though he made his life’s work and home in New York City.

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Paul Bender

Paul Bender, is an American attorney, author, judge and former dean of the Arizona State University college of law.

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Paul Clement

Paul Drew Clement (born June 24, 1966) is an American lawyer.

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Paul M. Bator

Paul Michael Bator (June 2, 1929 – February 24, 1989) was an American legal academic, Supreme Court advocate and expert on United States federal courts.

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Philip Elman

Philip Elman (14 March 1918 – 30 November 1999) was an American lawyer at the United States Department of Justice and former member of the Federal Trade Commission.

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Philip Perlman

Philip B. Perlman (March 5, 1890, Baltimore – July 31, 1960) was a Baltimore native, the son of Benjamin and Rose Nathan Perlman.

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President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Procedures of the Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest federal court in the United States and the only court specifically established by the Constitution of the United States, implemented in 1789.

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Rex E. Lee

Rex Edwin Lee (February 27, 1935 – March 11, 1996) was an American lawyer, law clerk for former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White, and the United States Solicitor General during the Reagan administration.

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Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only U.S. president to do so.

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Robert Bork

Robert Heron Bork (March 1, 1927 – December 19, 2012) was an American judge, government official, and legal scholar who advocated the judicial philosophy of originalism.

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Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building

Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building is the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the United States Department of Justice.

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Robert H. Jackson

Robert Houghwout Jackson (February 13, 1892 – October 9, 1954) was an American attorney and judge who served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

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Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

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Samuel Alito

Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. (born April 1, 1950) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Samuel F. Phillips

Samuel Field Phillips (February 18, 1824 – November 18, 1903) was a civil rights pioneer, lawyer, politician, and the second U.S. Solicitor General (1872–1885).

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Seth P. Waxman

Seth Paul Waxman (born November 28, 1951) is an American lawyer who served as the 41st Solicitor General of the United States.

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Simon Sobeloff

Simon Ernest Sobeloff (December 3, 1894 – July 11, 1973) was an American attorney and jurist, who served as Solicitor General of the United States, as Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, and as Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

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Solicitor General of the United States

The United States Solicitor General is the fourth-highest-ranking official in the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Sri Srinivasan

Srikanth "Sri" Srinivasan; is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

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Stanley Forman Reed

Stanley Forman Reed (December 31, 1884 – April 2, 1980) was a noted American attorney who served as United States Solicitor General from 1935 to 1938 and as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1938 to 1957.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.

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Tailcoat

A tailcoat is a coat with the front of the skirt cut away, so as to leave only the rear section of the skirt, known as the tails.

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The Post-Standard

The Post-Standard is a major newspaper serving the greater Syracuse, New York metro area.

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Theodore Olson

Theodore Bevry Olson (born September 11, 1940) is an American lawyer, practicing at the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

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Thomas D. Thacher

Thomas Day Thacher (September 10, 1881 – November 12, 1950) was a lawyer and judge in New York City.

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Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908January 24, 1993) was an American lawyer, serving as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991.

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Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American soldier and statesman who served as Commanding General of the Army and the 18th President of the United States, the highest positions in the military and the government of the United States.

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United States Attorney General

The United States Attorney General (A.G.) is the head of the United States Department of Justice per, concerned with all legal affairs, and is the chief lawyer of the United States government.

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United States Department of Justice

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the U.S. government, responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice in the United States, equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries. The department was formed in 1870 during the Ulysses S. Grant administration. The Department of Justice administers several federal law enforcement agencies including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The department is responsible for investigating instances of financial fraud, representing the United States government in legal matters (such as in cases before the Supreme Court), and running the federal prison system. The department is also responsible for reviewing the conduct of local law enforcement as directed by the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. The department is headed by the United States Attorney General, who is nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate and is a member of the Cabinet. The current Attorney General is Jeff Sessions.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.

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United States Supreme Court Building

The Supreme Court Building is the seat of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Judicial Branch thereof.

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Wade H. McCree

Wade Hampton McCree Jr. (July 3, 1920 – August 30, 1987) was an American attorney, judge, public official and law professor.

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Walter E. Dellinger III

Walter Estes Dellinger III (born May 15, 1941) is the Douglas B. Maggs Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law and head of the appellate practice at O’Melveny & Myers in Washington, D.C. He also currently leads Harvard Law School's.

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Walter J. Cummings Jr.

Walter Joseph Cummings Jr. (September 29, 1916 – April 24, 1999) was a United States Solicitor General and a federal judge.

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Warren G. Harding

Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was an American politician who served as the 29th President of the United States from 1921 until his death in 1923.

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William Curtis Bryson

William Curtis Bryson (born August 19, 1945) is a Senior United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

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William D. Mitchell

William DeWitt Mitchell (September 9, 1874August 24, 1955) was appointed to the position of U.S. Solicitor General by Calvin Coolidge on June 4, 1925, which he held until he was appointed to the position of U.S. Attorney General for the entirety of Herbert Hoover's Presidency.

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William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th President of the United States (1909–1913) and the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930), the only person to have held both offices.

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William L. Frierson

William Little Frierson (September 3, 1868 – May 25, 1953) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician.

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William Marshall Bullitt

William Marshall Bullitt (March 4, 1873 – October 3, 1957) was an influential lawyer and author who served as Solicitor General of the United States (1912-1913).

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William McKinley

William McKinley (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897 until his assassination in September 1901, six months into his second term.

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Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was an American statesman and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921.

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CVSG, Call for the Views of the Solicitor General, Deputy Solicitor General of the United States, Deputy United States Solicitor General, Solicitor General of the U.S., U.S. Solicitor General, US Solicitor General, USSG, United States Solicitor General.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solicitor_General_of_the_United_States

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