#elizabethprelogar — Public Fediverse posts

Two dozen #Republican-led states [again, of course] also asked to halt the #methane plan, arguing the time frame that the #Environmental Protection Agency laid out to comply w/the new #regulations was overly ambitious [cuz let’s take it slow as we head into the #ClimateCrisis] the plan could lead to the closure of #wells & possibly the loss of jobs. Solicitor General #ElizabethPrelogar wrote in response to the plaintiffs’ filing that those arguments lack #merit.

#law #SCOTUS #PublicHealth

In her Justice Department office in Washington, DC, a vase holds the evidence of how busy the 48th #solicitor #general of the United States has been:

In it, a collection of quills
—an old-time souvenir the Supreme Court gives every advocate who argues there
—serves as a reminder of her nearly four years standing up for the government.

Despite this visibility and all the attention and praise she gets from people who follow the Supreme Court closely,
most Americans would be hard-pressed to name one solicitor general,
let alone explain what this government lawyer does.

It may be the most low-key influential job you’ve never heard of,
tasked with defending the United States and its interests before the high court
—the only presidentially appointed officer required to be “learned in the law.”

That qualification doesn’t exist for the attorney general or even the justices of the Supreme Court.

#ElizabethPrelogar
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/elizabeth-prelogar-solicitor-general

“As #ChiefJustice #JohnRoberts & his archconservative supermajority have asserted dominance & made it harder for #Congress & #POTUS to #govern, #ElizabethPrelogar has been there all along: making sure the govt, if it’s going to lose, will at least lose well. Or wielding her oratory skills & legal argumentation to convince, at minimum, 2 members of Roberts’s bloc to rule for her side—or rule in a way the damage to our #laws & institutions is manageable. Or averted for a time.”

#law #SCOTUS

How #ElizabethPrelogar Stands Up to a Runaway #SCOTUS

“Prelogar’s tenure has been especially frenzied: In the term that recessed in July alone, by one count, she argued nearly 20% of all the cases in which the government was involved, the highest percentage for any #SolicitorGeneral in a quarter century or more. And of all the cases the court decided, her office participated in the lion’s share of them.“

#law
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/elizabeth-prelogar-solicitor-general