Solicitor General’s Office Adjusts as Prelogar Steps Back

Elizabeth Prelogar must step away from the U.S. solicitor general’s office while the Senate considers her nomination to lead the office permanently with a new Supreme Court term on the horizon featuring guns and abortion.

Moving from an acting role to a permanent one as the so-called Tenth Justice will force the appellate specialist to find a home somewhere else in the Justice Department for the time being. In the interim, Brian H. Fletcher, an appellate litigator who has helped lead the Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, will serve as acting solicitor general, according to the Justice Department ...