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Article: The Tenth Justice: the Solicitor General and the Rule of Law.
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- National Review
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- February 5, 1988
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LINCOLN CAPLAN, a writer for The New Yorker, doesn't like the legal views and practices of Edwin Meese's Justice Department: Justice has "exhausted the supply of synonyms for extremism in the law," he writes. Caplan concentrates his fire on the office of the solicitor general, which he accuses the Reagan Administration of fatally corrupting.
While the solicitor general's duties are fairly obscure to most laymen, he is the Federal Government's main advocate before the Supreme Court. Not only does he argue more cases before the High Court than anyone else, but even more importantly, the Court agrees to bear many more of the cases recommended by him than of ...