Political Deputy Named
on Sep 9, 2005 at 3:37 pm
Greg Garre of Hogan & Hartson, who recently was an Assistant to the Solicitor General, has been named the Political Deputy Solicitor General.
ML adds: In addition to working in the appellate litigation section at Hogan & Hartson, and now becoming Deputy Solicitor General, Greg Garre clerked for Chief Justice Rehnquist and served as one of his pallbearers earlier this week. Beginning to sound familiar? There are important distinctions, however: In particular, Greg has guest-blogged on SCOTUSblog (as part of our Beef Act dialogue last Term), whereas John Roberts has not done so . . . yet.
And while we’re on the subject . . . the Library of the first Bush Administration has released some White House Counsel’s office files from when the first President Bush was considering John Roberts to be the political Deputy SG. They can be found here and here. As one might expect, there’s nothing too surprising in them. The most revealing fact about Roberts’s application for the job, for instance, might be that whereas he worked an average of 70 hours a week clerking for Judge Friendly and for Justice Rehnquist, he thereafter averaged “only” 60 hours a week when working for the AG and at the White House Counsel’s Office. Also, in response to the standard-issue application question “Why are you seeking this position?,” Roberts responded with a simple, and refreshingly unadorned: “To serve my country.”
