{"id":3799,"date":"2025-01-21T07:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T07:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/former-thomas-clerk-sarah-harris-to-serve-as-acting-solicitor-general\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T07:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T07:22:09","slug":"former-thomas-clerk-sarah-harris-to-serve-as-acting-solicitor-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/former-thomas-clerk-sarah-harris-to-serve-as-acting-solicitor-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Thomas Clerk Sarah Harris to Serve as Acting Solicitor General"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>Sarah Harris, a Williams &amp; Connolly partner who clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, will soon take charge of the U.S. Solicitor General&#8217;s Office pending the expected confirmation of incoming President Donald Trump&#8217;s nominee for the position, John Sauer, multiple sources have told the National Law Journal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>As the Trump administration&#8217;s choice for principal deputy solicitor general, Harris will serve as acting solicitor general from day one of Trump&#8217;s second term until Sauer&#8217;s expected Senate confirmation. In that role, she will temporarily be in charge of shaping the Trump administration&#8217;s legal positions at the Supreme Court, and will likely play a key role in some of the early legal battles over Trump&#8217;s controversial policy agenda, including perhaps the president-elect&#8217;s plans for mass deportations and immigration crackdowns. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Harris, a Williams &amp; Connolly partner who clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, will soon take charge of the U.S. Solicitor General&#8217;s Office pending the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4360,4358,1009,2923,4359,4045,4361,3303],"class_list":["post-3799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-acting","tag-clerk","tag-general","tag-harris","tag-sarah","tag-serve","tag-solicitor","tag-thomas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}