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"Katyal Tapped as Principal Deputy in SG's Office"

By Douglas A. Berman

The BLT Blog has this report on the significant news concerning who will be second banana in the Office of the Solicitor General.  Here are the details: Legal Times has confirmed that Georgetown law professor Neal Katyal, who successfully argued the landmark detainee rights case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld before the Supreme Court, will serve as principal deputy solicitor general, the office?s No. 2 spot, starting Tuesday. Katyal's appointment is another strong signal of President-elect Barack Obama's intentions to depart sharply from the terrorist detention and interrogation policies of the Bush administration.... The pick also means the Justice Department's Office of the Solicitor General could be led by two lawyers who have argued a combined two cases before the Supreme Court...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 18, 2009 (boomark / email).