How to Use solicitor general in a Sentence

solicitor general

noun

• Just this month, the solicitor general asked the Supreme Court, for a second time, to stay the district court’s ruling.
  — Rachel Rebouché, Time, 22 Dec. 2020
• Junior ministers, the solicitor general, and the U.K.’s trade envoy to Kenya were among the first out the door.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 6 July 2022
• The solicitor general, to the shock of the Court, affirmed that, under the current law, such a book could be banned and the author imprisoned.
  — Joe Lonsdale, National Review, 12 Aug. 2019
• The opinion from Brnovich’s deputy solicitor general said the county may hand-count all the ballots in as many as five races.
  — Bob Christie, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Oct. 2022
• The opinion from Brnovich's deputy solicitor general said the county may hand-count all the ballots in as many as five races.
  — Bob Christie, ajc, 29 Oct. 2022
• Any time the solicitor general files a brief in the Supreme Court, there is a potential for tension.
  — The Editors, National Review, 17 Jan. 2024
• The group challenging Harvard’s admissions policy has asked the court to hear the case, and the court has called for the views of the solicitor general.
  — Brianne Gorod, The New Republic, 9 Sep. 2021
• The solicitor general's office filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the leagues.
  — Houston Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2017
• The solicitor general, Robert Bork, who was next in the chain of command, carried out the decision.
  — Chris Megerian, latimes.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• When lower courts ruled in favor of the paper and editors, the solicitor general took the cases to the Supreme Court.
  — Patricia Callahan, ProPublica, 15 Dec. 2021
• The former Texas solicitor general has argued nine cases in front of the Supreme Court.
  — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 29 Dec. 2020
• The Border Patrol official spoke to the guardsman through a closed gate and was denied entry to the park, the solicitor general wrote.
  — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
• That lawyer was Tushar Mehta, the solicitor general of India.
  — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023
• At one point, the Supreme Court even wanted the solicitor general to weigh in — and the case became one of the Trump administration's first amicus briefs to the high court.
  — Eriq Gardner, Billboard, 7 June 2018
• The government's solicitor general went instead and filed an appeal, but the judge said the request was too late.
  — Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2022
• The solicitor general, representing the FDA, will urge the court to end the case quietly by throwing out the lawsuit.
  — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
• He was hired to the solicitor general’s office in 1968 and promoted to deputy two years later.
  — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2020
• Judith Vale, New York’s deputy solicitor general, said as much as 65% of some states' smog pollution comes from out of state.
  — Matthew Daly, Quartz, 21 Feb. 2024
• He was elected four years ago as Gwinnett’s first Black solicitor general and one of the first Democrats to win countywide office in decades.
  — Alia Malik, ajc, 26 May 2022
• Misha Tseytlin, the Wisconsin solicitor general and a former law clerk for Kennedy, disagreed with me by email.
  — Michael Smerconish, Philly.com, 3 July 2018
• The awards' namesake McCree served as a judge and solicitor general.
  — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 17 Apr. 2024
• The lawsuits were filed this year by former Texas solicitor general Jonathan Mitchell.
  — Dallas News, 1 Nov. 2022
• Joshua Klein, a deputy solicitor general, said the clinics are required to provide the notices in 13 languages.
  — David G. Savage, latimes.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• Chris Kise, the state’s former solicitor general, was retained after a number of other lawyers declined to work on the case.
  — John McCormick, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022
• Matt Kuhn, the state’s principal deputy solicitor general, will argue Cameron’s case before the Supreme Court next week.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Oct. 2021
• The Supreme Court’s decision to ask the solicitor general for its views is a curious one, but its not uncommon.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 24 Jan. 2023
• Again, that was the state solicitor general and the more complicit members of the Alabama Senate.
  — Kyle Whitmire | [e-mail], al, 23 Aug. 2023
• Texas’ solicitor general, Judd Stone, will defend the law before the court, along with a lawyer for a group of private citizens who want to file lawsuits under SB 8.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Nov. 2021
• The president's solicitor general told the courts the program was abandoned because it could not be defended in court and some states, like Texas, had moved to challenge it.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 26 Feb. 2018
• The solicitor general is the main lawyer who represents the federal government before the Supreme Court.
  — Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024