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Judicial Disqualification When a Solicitor General Moves to the Bench
Engage Volume 11, Issue 3, December 2010
December 23, 2010
Ronald RotundaIt has been over forty years since a Solicitor General has moved to the High Court. Now that Elena Kagan has followed in Thurgood Marshall’s footsteps—when she moved from standing in front of the bench to sitting behind it—she has to navigate a strict judicial disqualification statute that did not exist in 1967, when Thurgood Marshall (the grandson of a slave) left his position as Solicitor General to become Supreme Court Justice.
Judicial Disqualification When a Solicitor General Moves to the Bench
