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...keep medical marijuana legal. All three filed briefs supporting Left Coast medipot users before the U.S. Supreme Court, which will hear arguments on Nov. 29 on whether patients can cultivate and possess physician-prescribed cannabis. "We happen to believe California's medical-marijuana policy is misguided," says Alabama solicitor general Kevin Newsom. "But this isn't about the drug war. It's about states' rights...
Kagan was included in New York Times and Washington Post lists of possible candidates for a John Kerry appointment to the next open seat. If President Bush is re-elected, the papers speculated that he might appoint Washington lawyer Miguel A. Estrada, former Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson or White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales...
...recruited Manning—an authority on administrative law, statutory interpretation and separation of powers law—from Columbia Law School. As assistant to the U.S. solicitor general from 1991 to 1994, Manning worked on a broad range of cases, including tax, criminal and telecommunications cases as well as a military base closure case...
RESIGNED. THEODORE OLSON, 63, attorney who successfully represented presidential candidate George W. Bush before the Supreme Court during the 2000 Florida recount case; as U.S. Solicitor General. Olson, whose wife died aboard a hijacked plane on Sept. 11, also vociferously defended the Bush Administration's aggressive legal measures against terrorism...
...solicitor general under President John F. Kennedy ’40, Ames Professor of Law Philip B. Heymann said, Cox argued “more very important constitutional law cases than anyone in the second half of the 20th century...