Solicitor General Prelogar Shows Lighter Side on NPR Quiz Show

Oct. 11, 2023, 3:40 PM UTC

Elizabeth Prelogar likes to be addressed as general over solicitor general, but when the former beauty pageant winner heads back to her home state, she joked her title is “General Idaho.”

The government’s attorney at the US Supreme Court was asked about her past as Miss Idaho while appearing as a guest on the latest episode of NPR’s quiz show “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!”

“Why as a young woman in Idaho did you want to do that?” host Peter Sagal asked about her days as a beauty pageant contestant.

Prelogar, an Emory University and Harvard Law School graduate, explained that ...

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