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The Solicitor General of Texas is the top appellate solicitor or lawyer for the U.S. state of Texas. It is an appointed position in the Office of the Texas Attorney General that focuses on the office's major appellate cases. The majority of the cases handled by the solicitor are argued in the United States Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of ...
Solicitors general of Pennsylvania (1 P) T. Solicitors general of Texas (9 P) U. ... State solicitors general in the United States.
The Supreme Court has also occasionally invited a state attorney general to express a view on a petition related to that state. In 2009, for the first time, the invitation was directed instead to a state solicitor general, [13] James Ho of Texas, earning the request the nickname "CVSG-Texas." [14]
Park has served as the Solicitor General since 2020, and previously served as the state’s deputy solicitor general from 2017-2020. He has worked as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court justices ...
A solicitor general is a government official who serves as the chief representative of the government in courtroom proceedings. In systems based on the English common law that have an attorney general or equivalent position, the solicitor general is often the second-ranked law officer of the state and a deputy of the attorney general.
In 2020, Stone began working in the office of the Texas Solicitor General. After Texas Solicitor General Kyle D. Hawkins announced his intent to resign in January 2021, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appointed Stone to replace him. Stone became Texas Solicitor General upon Hawkins' resignation on February 1, 2021. [3] [5]
The Texas bar association is investigating whether Ken Paxton's failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election based on bogus claims of fraud amounted to professional misconduct.
Bruce Lee Castor Jr. [1] (born October 24, 1961) [2] [3] is an American lawyer and retired Republican politician from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.He was appointed as the first Solicitor General of Pennsylvania in March 2016, and also first deputy attorney general the following July.