{"id":11637,"date":"2021-09-19T10:45:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T16:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=11637"},"modified":"2021-09-19T10:45:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T16:45:28","slug":"senate-confirmation-hearing-for-solicitor-general-nominee-elizabeth-prelogar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=11637","title":{"rendered":"Senate Confirmation Hearing for Solicitor General Nominee Elizabeth Prelogar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Solicitor General is often referred to as &#8220;The Tenth Justice.&#8221;  I was looking to see if the Solicitor General&#8217;s Office had yet filed its requested brief in <em>American Axle <\/em>and came across this recent Senate confirmation hearing for Solicitor General nominee Elizabeth Prelogar.  The introduction begins at the 4:00 minute mark; the questioning begins at the 2:17:20 minute mark.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought the discussion of parties that the Solicitor General&#8217;s Office consults with before determining its position on a matter, including &#8220;agencies with equities&#8221; in the matter, was interesting at the 2:36:18 minute mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Link to video: [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?514622-1\/beth-robinson-jennifer-sung-testify-circuit-court-confirmation-hearing\">Link<\/a>].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?514622-1\/beth-robinson-jennifer-sung-testify-circuit-court-confirmation-hearing\"><\/video><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Solicitor General is often referred to as &#8220;The Tenth Justice.&#8221; I was looking to see if the Solicitor General&#8217;s Office had yet filed its requested brief in American Axle and came across this recent Senate confirmation hearing for Solicitor General nominee Elizabeth Prelogar. The introduction begins at the 4:00 minute mark; the questioning begins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11637"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11641,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11637\/revisions\/11641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}