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Speaker 1: It is time for our daily Bloomberg Law Brief, exploring

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Speaker 1: legal issues in the news. Today, a Bloomberg Law host,

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Speaker 1: Student Grosso and Greg Store discussed the role of US

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Speaker 1: Solicitor General and Noah Francisco, who was just nominated to

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Speaker 1: that role. They speak to, Greg jare a partner at

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Speaker 1: Latham and Watkins and former Solicitor General under President George W. Bush.

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Speaker 1: You and know are in kind of a small world

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Speaker 1: of repeat Supreme Court lawyers, So why don't you tell

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Speaker 1: us a little bit about them? So no is a

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Speaker 1: fantastic lawyer with experience before the court. Is al three

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Speaker 1: cases before the Supreme Court. I believe he won all

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Speaker 1: three of them. He also has experience working in the

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Speaker 1: Department of Justice. He formerly worked at the Office of

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Speaker 1: Legal Counsel under the Bush administration, as well as in

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Speaker 1: the White House Council's Office. So he's got a lot

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Speaker 1: of experience with the Court. He's got a lot of

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Speaker 1: experience with the Department of Justice. He's a super smart,

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Speaker 1: talented advocate, and I think he's a terrific pick for

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Speaker 1: this post. Greg Francisco is a former clerk to Justice

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Speaker 1: Anton Skali. Apparently he keeps a bobble head figure of

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Speaker 1: the former justice on his desk. How conservative is he? Well,

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Speaker 1: I don't know the exact answer to that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there are a lot of folks who are fans of

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Speaker 1: Justice Scalia. So the fact that Noel's former law clerk

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Speaker 1: is a fan of him, Um, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: that in itself puts them at any particular point on

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Speaker 1: the spectrum. Um, Noel is someone who has worked in

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Speaker 1: prior administrations. Um, he's a He joined the department initially

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Speaker 1: as the principal deputy Solicitor General. So UM, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think he's certainly someone m comfortable in that position. Greg,

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Speaker 1: do you see this as being h an unusually challenging

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Speaker 1: time to be solicitor general with this rather unconventional president

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Speaker 1: and the prospect that, um, he might try to push

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Speaker 1: the law in some new directions. You know, I think

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Speaker 1: that the job of Solicitor General has become increasingly challenged,

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Speaker 1: challenging just as a general matter. I mean, if you

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Speaker 1: look back over the past few administrations, Um, the Supreme

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Speaker 1: Court seems to be increasingly at the center of the

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Speaker 1: most contentious and oftentimes devisive issues in our country, and

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Speaker 1: the Solicitor General is the federal government's top advocates is

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Speaker 1: usually finds himself or herself right in the middle of

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Speaker 1: those controversies. So it's it's been a challenging position across

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Speaker 1: different administrations, and I expect it will continue to be challenging.

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Speaker 1: And that's Greg Guard, partner at Latham and Watkins and

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Speaker 1: former Solicitor General under President George W. Bush, speaking to

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Law host June Grosso and Greg Store. And the

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