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Between Law and Politics: the Solicitor General and the Structuring of Race, Gender, and Reproductive Rights Litigation.

Publication: Presidential Studies Quarterly
Publication Date: 01-MAR-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Between Law and Politics: the Solicitor General and the Structuring of Race, Gender, and Reproductive Rights Litigation.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
Between Law and Politics: The Solicitor General and the Structuring of Race, Gender, and Reproductive Rights Litigation. By Richard L. Pacelle, Jr. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. 342 pp.

Pacelle has produced an ambitious book. It is richly historical as well as sharply analytical, and it draws substantially from a treasure trove of 34 interviews with solicitors general or their deputies or assistants from the last 40 years and a detailed review of briefs and decisions from hundreds of U.S. Supreme Court decisions over the same period. The focus of his effort is to examine the role of the solicitor general (SG) in litigation in three policy areas--civil rights, gender equality, and reproductive rights--and to assess the relative success of the office in structuring policy in each of these spheres under different administrations and before various Supreme Courts.

His exploration proceeds from the familiar...

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