How to Use solicitor general in a Sentence

solicitor general

noun
  • The opinion from Brnovich’s deputy solicitor general said the county may hand-count all the ballots in as many as five races.
    — Bob Christie, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Oct. 2022
  • The opinion from Brnovich's deputy solicitor general said the county may hand-count all the ballots in as many as five races.
    — Bob Christie, ajc, 29 Oct. 2022
  • The government's solicitor general went instead and filed an appeal, but the judge said the request was too late.
    — Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2022
  • LeMaster added that Watson's salary has not changed with the move to deputy solicitor general.
    — Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 8 May 2025
  • City councilmembers, school board members and the county solicitor general were all on hand to give remarks.
    — J.d. Capelouto, ajc, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Any time the solicitor general files a brief in the Supreme Court, there is a potential for tension.
    — The Editors, National Review, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Just this month, the solicitor general asked the Supreme Court, for a second time, to stay the district court’s ruling.
    — Rachel Rebouché, Time, 22 Dec. 2020
  • The awards' namesake McCree served as a judge and solicitor general.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 17 Apr. 2024
  • That lawyer was Tushar Mehta, the solicitor general of India.
    — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023
  • The solicitor general contended Tuesday that none of the states had such standing.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The lawsuits were filed this year by former Texas solicitor general Jonathan Mitchell.
    — Dallas News, 1 Nov. 2022
  • But that involves first getting the approval of the solicitor general, Coggins said.
    — Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The solicitor general, Robert Bork, who was next in the chain of command, carried out the decision.
    — Chris Megerian, latimes.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The former Texas solicitor general has argued nine cases in front of the Supreme Court.
    — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Chris Kise, the state’s former solicitor general, was retained after a number of other lawyers declined to work on the case.
    — John McCormick, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Cruz was appointed as solicitor general in the state in 2003.
    — Fox News, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The solicitor general, to the shock of the Court, affirmed that, under the current law, such a book could be banned and the author imprisoned.
    — Joe Lonsdale, National Review, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Alan Hurst, Idaho’s solicitor general, spoke to the justices first.
    — Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 13 Jan. 2026
  • He was hired to the solicitor general’s office in 1968 and promoted to deputy two years later.
    — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2020
  • The group challenging Harvard’s admissions policy has asked the court to hear the case, and the court has called for the views of the solicitor general.
    — Brianne Gorod, The New Republic, 9 Sep. 2021
  • When lower courts ruled in favor of the paper and editors, the solicitor general took the cases to the Supreme Court.
    — Patricia Callahan, ProPublica, 15 Dec. 2021
  • The solicitor general said the suspension costs the government $5billion a month.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The Supreme Court’s decision to ask the solicitor general for its views is a curious one, but its not uncommon.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The solicitor general’s office asked the court to summarily reverse the lower court.
    — Ella Lee, The Hill, 30 June 2025
  • Misha Tseytlin, the Wisconsin solicitor general and a former law clerk for Kennedy, disagreed with me by email.
    — Michael Smerconish, Philly.com, 3 July 2018
  • Joshua Klein, a deputy solicitor general, said the clinics are required to provide the notices in 13 languages.
    — David G. Savage, latimes.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Its solicitor general successfully urged the Supreme Court to reject a lawsuit that had sought to sharply limit access to the drug.
    — Maggie Astor, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2024
  • He was elected four years ago as Gwinnett’s first Black solicitor general and one of the first Democrats to win countywide office in decades.
    — Alia Malik, ajc, 26 May 2022
  • The Border Patrol official spoke to the guardsman through a closed gate and was denied entry to the park, the solicitor general wrote.
    — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • To resolve the matter more definitively, the solicitor general is preparing to ask the Supreme Court to take up the issue in its next term.
    — Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025

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