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Any thoughts as to who will or should replace Elena Kagan as Solicitor General?

By Douglas A. Berman

In addition to thinking about how the SCOTUS confirmation hearing for SG Kagan are likely to play out, my thoughts today keep wandering toward who might get to be the next Solicitor General.  In part because they are both friends and both criminal justice gurus, I keep thinking about current deputy SG Neal Katyal (of Hamden fame) and Stanford law prof Jeff Fisher (of Blakely and Crawford fame).  I would be thrilled if either was the next SG, but I have absolutely insider knowledge about their prospects and no sense of whether either would be good politics.  Still, for my own parochial reasons, I am going to call them the front-runners until someone tells me otherwise.

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 10, 2010 (boomark / email).