After a series of potential candidates came and went, President Donald Trump announced plans Tuesday night to nominate former Jones Day partner Noel Francisco to the position of solicitor general, the top government lawyer before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Francisco is the current acting solicitor general and since January 23 has been the principal deputy SG, according to the Justice Department’s website. As he handled new legal positions taken by the new administration, buzz about possible nominees for the Senate-confirmed position skipped from Jones Day colleague Michael Carvin to George Conway III of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Charles Cooper of Cooper & Kirk, Christopher Landau of Kirkland & Ellis and Kannon Shanmugam of Williams & Connolly.
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