The Justice Department has confirmed reports that Solicitor General Elena Kagan will not argue before the Supreme Court during its next argument cycle starting April 20, which is the final set of arguments for the current term. That means she won’t be making her first argument before the Court until next term, which begins Oct. 5.
When we wrote in January about Kagan’s lack of appellate experience, veteran advocate Andrew Frey of Mayer Brown suggested she should not feel obliged to argue a case this spring, so soon after her confirmation. After she was confirmed by the Senate on March 19, however, reliable sources indicated Kagan was planning to argue April 29 in the high-profile Voting Rights Act case Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One v. Holder. But now it appears Kagan is taking the go-slow approach, and Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal will argue the voting rights case.
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