Stubborn Facts - (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
I will be in Cincinatti on Monday for this Ashbrook / Federalist Society conference on "The Presidency and the Courts." We'll hear from (inter alios) Eds Meese and Whelan, Paul Clement, and 43 . A post on Rick Garnett's speech to the Indianapolis Federalist Society last week is in the works, too.
The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
Former Solicitor General Paul Clement, likely to be one of the biggest catches for local law firms coming out of the Bush administration, said this morning he is talking to several firms, but has made no decision yet. Clement, who...
Crime & Federalism (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Reason 6,742 why today's media is trash: Two former top Justice Department officials emerged Wednesday as figures in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal as prosecutors disclosed plans to turn over some of the officials' correspondence to defense lawyers preparing for trial in the case. The officials are former Solicitor General Paul Clement and David Ayres, one-time chief of staff to...
Abovethelaw.com (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
* The financial crisis has everyone reeling. Here's a good American solution: sue! [ Bloomberg ] * Paul Clement may have to suspend his rubber hose business for now. He and fellow former DOJ-er David Ayres are getting sucked into the Abramoff legal abyss. [ Washington Times ] * It's "the fiercest battle in products liability law today." SCOTUS will tackle federal pre-emption this fall. [ New York...
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
Two former top Justice Department officials, former Solicitor General Paul Clement and former Ashcroft chief-of-staff David Ayres, “emerged Wednesday as figures in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal,” the AP reports. Both Clement and Ayres were in e-mail correspondence with former Abramoff associate Kevin Ring, who is “facing trial on 10 counts of conspiracy, obstruction of [...]
Abovethelaw.com (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
Could it be? A message for ATL from Paul Clement , the 43rd Solicitor General of the United States? (It's not completely out of the question. We have written about Clement a fair amount, and we have also met him in person .) The lowercase type for his name seemed a little odd. But some very prominent attorneys, like John Quinn of Quinn Emanuel, use lowercase type for email messages. Based on the subject...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement told a gathering of lawyers in Philadelphia yesterday that a Supreme Court decision in February shielding medical-device makers from legal liability could foreshadow sweeping protections for pharmaceutical makers.
SCOTUSblog (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
In his final merits filing, outgoing SG Paul Clement submitted this topside brief Monday on behalf of the FCC in No. 07-582, FCC v. Fox Television. I discussed the case here when the Court granted certiorari. The government brief deals almost exclusively with the APA question on which cert. was granted, and not on the [...]
The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
With the departure of Paul Clement as solicitor general June 2, two of his deputies are making moves. Gregory Garre, formerly the principal deputy in the office, was named acting solicitor general by President George W. Bush on June 2....
The Guantánamo Blog (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Gregory Garre has been nominated by Bush to be the next Solicitor General after Paul Clement and Thomas Hungar announced almost simultaneously that they were both leaving... Now Paul is gone and Thomas is leaving soon. In 2004 I argued before the Supreme Court in a civil rights case and the solicitors office filed a brief in support of my position and was given argument time. Greg Garre was the
Washington Wire (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Henry J. Pulizzi reports on the White House. President Bush plans tonominate Gregory Garre to be U.S. solicitor general, the White House said. If confirmed by the Senate, Garre will replace Paul Clement, whose resignation takes effect today. The solicitor general argues the administration’s position before the U.S. Supreme Court. Bush will designate Garre acting Solicitor [...]
Legalities (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Today is Paul Clement’s last as Solicitor General, and the White House moved quickly to tap a replacement: Deputy Solicitor General Gregory Garre. The White House announced this afternoon that President Bush would nominate Garre to be the administration's top...
Law Blog (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
This just in: President Bush intends to nominate Gregory Garre to be Solicitor General at the Department of Justice, replacing Paul Clement, who announced his resignation last week and will soon start a teaching gig at Georgetown University Law Center. Garre currently serves as Principal Deputy Solicitor General in the Office of the Solicitor General [...]
The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Paul Clement began his final day as solicitor general this morning at the Supreme Court. He probably had been alerted that the chief justice might make note of his departure from the bench during the Court's brief opinion-announcing session. Chief...
Exploring International Law (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
Paul D. ClementThis is excellent news! From the press release:Georgetown University Law Center Dean T. Alexander Aleinikoff is pleased to announce that outgoing U.S. Solicitor Gene
