The Role of the Modern State Solicitor General: Current and Former SGs Weigh In
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Is the Sixth Circuit a Lottery?
A lot of the works that we do is with the other AGs in terms of which SG ends up taking the lead on something. And so we were fortunate to be able to take the lead on that which ultimately led to a Supreme Court argument. In that case I believe every circuit except the federal circuit had a ball and a lottery machine. They picked the sixth which is just random chance. The ping pong ball is heavily weighted in the sixth because the multi state water the United States challenge had a similar circuit decision that one also landed in the sixth.
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