WASHINGTON – A recent release of documents under the Freedom of Information Act is shedding light on the internal workings of the U.S. Solicitor General’s Office in 2010 before and after then-Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The documents, mainly in the form of printouts of internal e-mail chains, show that now-Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal—not Ms. Kagan herself—was the point person within the office on discussions of the new health care reform law and how to defend it in court.
