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** The office of the Solicitor General of the United States is set up to supervise and conduct government litigation in the United States Supreme Court.
The law did create a new office, that of Solicitor General, to supervise and conduct government litigation in the Supreme Court of the United States.
This office was preceded by the offices of the Comptroller of the Treasury ( 1789 – 1817 ), First Comptroller of the Treasury ( 1817 – 20 ), Agent of the Treasury ( 1820 – 30 ), and Solicitor of the Treasury 1830 – 1934.
In June 1987, Philip Elman, a civil rights attorney who served as an associate in the Solicitor General's office during Harry Truman's term, claimed he and Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter were mostly responsible for the Supreme Court's decision, and stated that the NAACP's arguments did not present strong evidence.
Organization of the office of the Solicitor General
In addition to supervising and conducting cases in which the government is a party, the office of the Solicitor General also files amicus curiae briefs in cases in which the federal government has a significant interest in the legal issue.
The office of the Solicitor General also reviews cases decided against the United States in the federal district courts and approves every case in which the government files an appeal.
Furthermore, when the office of the Solicitor General endorses a petition for certiorari, review is frequently granted, which is remarkable given that only 75 – 125 of the over 7, 500 petitions submitted each term are granted review by the Court.
Some who have had other positions in the office of the Solicitor General have also later been appointed to the Supreme Court.
Most obviously to spectators at oral argument before the Court, the Solicitor General and his or her deputies traditionally appear in formal morning coats, although Elena Kagan, the first woman to hold the office, elected to forgo the practice.
Olson was nominated for the office of Solicitor General by President Bush on February 14, 2001, was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 24, 2001, and took office on June 11, 2001.
In July 2004, Olson retired as Solicitor General and returned to private practice at the Washington office of Gibson Dunn.
* Chief State Solicitor, a branch of the office of the Attorney General of Ireland
His appointment by Grant in November 1870 was well timed ; having had the strong enforcement powers of the newly created U. S. Department of Justice and the assistance of the newly created office of the U. S. Solicitor General.
Acting Solicitor General Katyal remarked in 2011 that, in the pre-war era of ethnic segregation in public accommodations, which on the West Coast included wide refusal of equal treatment of " Japs ," the Chief's office was easily prejudiced to disavow the Ringle Report in its 1942 letter.
Bowen's services to his leader, Sir John Coleridge, helped to procure for him the appointment of junior counsel to the treasury when Sir John had passed, as he did while the trial proceeded, from the office of Solicitor General to that of Attorney-General ; and from this time his practice became a very large one.
With this added political influence, Murray hoped to be appointed to a government office, and when Sir John Strange resigned as Solicitor General, Murray was made a Member of Parliament for Boroughbridge on 15 December 1742 and immediately succeeded Strange as Solicitor General.
But to the policy which had been pursued since the suppression of the Western insurrection he was bitterly hostile, and not the less so because his younger brother Heneage had been turned out of the office of Solicitor General for refusing to defend the King's dispensing power.
Former Solicitor General Elena Kagan, the only woman to hold the office to date, appeared before the Court in pantsuits in lieu of morning dress.
In 1966, the modern position of Solicitor General was created with the repeal of the previous Solicitor General Act and the passage of a new statute creating the ministerial office of the Solicitor General of Canada.

office and General
The integrity of the office not merely requires that the Secretary General shall be, as the Charter puts it, `` the chief administrative officer of the Organization '', but that neither he nor his staff shall seek or receive instructions from any government or any other authority `` external to the Organization ''.
President Rodríguez's approval would reach an all-time low, and he was indicted by the Attorney General after leaving office on corruption charges.
In 1982, the post of Chairman was abolished, and the General Secretary, at this time held by the same man as the post of Chairman, once again became the supreme office of the Party.
Following Lenin's death, Joseph Stalin took power in the Communist Party through the office of General Secretary of the Central Commmittee, the leading Secretary of the Secretariat.
Stalin is too rude, and this fault, fully tolerable in our midst and in the relations among us Communists, becomes intolerable in the office of General Secretary.
Because of legal issues related to holding a military rank while in a civilian office, Eisenhower had resigned his permanent commission as General of the Army before entering the office of President of the United States.
While Deng never held office as the head of state, head of government or General Secretary of the Communist Party of China ( the highest position in Communist China ), he nonetheless served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 to 1992.
With such business implications in mind, David Liddle ( General Manager, Xerox Office Systems ) and Metcalfe ( 3Com ) strongly supported a proposal of Fritz Röscheisen ( Siemens Private Networks ) for an alliance in the emerging office communication market, including Siemens ' support for the international standardization of Ethernet ( April 10, 1981 ).
With Ayub Khan ousted from office in 1969, Commander of the Pakistani Army, General Yahya Khan became the country's second ruling Chief Martial Law Administrator.
On 24 March, dissatisfied with the performance of his generals, Yahya Khan removed General Muzaffaruddin and General Yaub Khan from office on 1 September 1969.
The remaining checks, made out to " Treasurer General of the Republic " ( a position that ceased to exist after the revolution ), were shown stuffed in a desk drawer in Castro's office during a television interview with the leader years ago.
At the 16th meeting of the IMU General Assembly in Bangalore, India in August 2010, Berlin was chosen as the location of the permanent office of the IMU, which was opened on January 1, 2011, and is hosted by the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics ( WIAS ), an institute of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community, with about 120 scientists engaging in mathematical research applied to complex problems in industry and commerce.
Hoover kept the intercepts — America's greatest counterintelligence secret — in a locked safe in his office, choosing not to inform President Truman, Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, or two Secretaries of State — Dean Acheson and General George Marshall — while they held office.
In late 1863, Watts resigned as Attorney General to take office as the Governor of Alabama, and George Davis of North Carolina took his place.
French journalists visit General George C. Marshall at his office in the Pentagon building, 1945
( In 2001, Thomas administered Ashcroft's oath of office as U. S. Attorney General.
When it came to time for Ribbentrop to present the German declaration of war on 22 June 1941 to the Soviet Ambassador, General Vladimir Dekanozov, Paul Schmidt described the scene :" It is just before four on the morning of Sunday, 22 June 1941 in the office of the Foreign Minister.
It was not until 3 August 1965 that the new station and office were opened by the Postmaster General, Anthony Wedgwood-Benn.
Until shortly before his death, Lenin worked to counter the disproportionate political influence of Joseph Stalin in the Communist Party and in the bureaucracy of the soviet government, partly because of abuses he had committed against the populace of Georgia, and partly because the autocratic Stalin had accumulated administrative power disproportionate to his office of General Secretary of the Communist Party.
An Attorney General is part of the Cabinet and also needs the approval of Parliament before taking office.

office and argues
Nagel argues that Adams ' political problems were the result of an unusually hostile Jacksonian faction, and Adams ' own dislike of the office.
Roderigo complains that he has received nothing for his efforts and threatens to abandon his pursuit of Desdemona, but Iago convinces him to kill Cassio instead, because Cassio has just been appointed governor of Cyprus, and — Iago argues — if Cassio lives to take office, Othello and Desdemona will leave Cyprus, thwarting Roderigo's plans to win Desdemona.
In the play, Praxagora, a character, argues that women should rule because they are superior to men, not equal, and yet she declines to assert publicly her right to rule, although elected and although acting in office.
Academic Paul Stock argues that M's office is a metonym for England and a stable point from which Bond departs on a mission, whilst he sees M as being an iconic representative of England and Englishness.
Journalist David Remnick, who wrote the biography The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, countered that it should now be obvious that after one year in office Obama is a centre-left president and the majority of his policies are in line with the center-left Democratic tradition ; while, in July 2011, The Fiscal Times columnist Bruce Barlett argues that an honest examination of the Obama presidency must conclude that he has in fact been a moderately conservative Democrat and that it may take 20 years before Obama ’ s basic conservatism is widely accepted, and author and columnist Chris Hedges argues that the Obama administration's policies are mostly right-wing.
He argues that Nassau made attempts over many years to improve the lot of the Irish people, even at considerable personal cost ( in 1832 he was removed, after one year in office, from his position as Professor of Political Economy at King's College, London, for supporting the Catholic Church in Ireland ).
The book argues that the Oakland A's ' front office took advantage of more analytical gauges of player performance to field a team that could compete successfully against richer competitors in Major League Baseball ( MLB ).
Howe ( 2007 ) argues that the transformation America underwent was not so much political democratization but rather the explosive growth of technologies and networks of infrastructure and communication — the telegraph, railroads, the post office, and an expanding print industry.
Kripke argues that the way that proper names work is that when we make statements about what might or might not have been true of Bismarck, we are talking about what might or might not have been true of that particular person in various situations, whereas when we make statements about what might or might not have been true of, say, the first Chancellor of the German Empire we could be talking about what might or might not have been true of whoever would have happened to fill that office in those situations.
The ISPO argues that, as more and more citizens act in this way, politicians will adopt it too if they wish to remain in office, or else they risk losing their seats to other politicians who have adopted it.
After Air Force One has been captured by Kazakh terrorists, with U. S. President Jim Marshall ( Harrison Ford ) on board, the Secretary of Defense claims that he's in charge based on the National Security Act of 1947, against the disagreement of the Attorney General who argues that the President is incapable of discharging the office, " just as if he had had a stroke ".
However, Middle East scholar Louise Fawcett argues that by 1993 when Clinton came to officethe initial momentum of Madrid had flagged, and the subsequent bilateral talks in Washington between Israel and its neighbours had got bogged down.
He argues that a letter received by the Patriarch of Alexandria John V shortly before 1150 from an unnamed Ethiopian monarch, in which the Patriarch is asked for a new abuna because the current office holder was too old, was from Mara Takla Haymanot, who wanted the abuna replaced because he would not endorse the new dynasty.
He argues that thanks to the combination of technological changes, rising economic inequality, market logics and the wholesale entry of mothers into the labor force, we have transformed from a 9-to-5 culture that had clear delineations between work and leisure to the modern 24-hour workday culture that combines home and office as well as a number of other once-bounded and sacred spheres of social life.
Another piece of evidence that argues against the theory of heresy is the false door of the priest Shery at Sakkara, who held office during the early 4th dynasty.

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