Mississippi Solicitor General Scott Stewart will make his U.S. Supreme Court debut Dec. 1 to defend that state’s 15-week abortion ban, the latest in a string of attorneys for state SG offices to take the lectern this term.
Solicitors general from five states appeared at seven of the 19 arguments so far this term including in politically charged cases involving abortion, gun rights, and capital sentencing. Stewart and Arizona Solicitor General Brunn Roysden will argue in the upcoming sitting.
State solicitors general offices are a relatively new phenomenon, designed to increase the quality of appellate advocacy at the Supreme Court ...
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