At AP on August 11, 2021 there is a brief article by Aamer Madhani titled Biden makes selection for his top Supreme Court lawyer. It begins by noting Elizabeth Prelogar already was acting Solicitor General, and that she served from 2014 to 2019 as assistant to the Solicitor General. He also notes that she was clerk for two Supreme Court Justices – Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan. Before that she clerked for Merrick Garland (now our Attorney General) when he was a judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals. The article ends by noting that:
“As Miss Idaho 2004, Prelogar also spent a year traveling to classrooms around Idaho to raise awareness about showing sensitivity to individuals with disabilities.”
A second longer article by Jim Jones in the Idaho Capital Sun on August 18, 2021 is titled Idaho-grown lawyer nominated by President Joe Biden to become next U.S. solicitor general. That article mentions that her father, lawyer Rudolph Barchas, was the first head of the Consumer Protection Division in the Office of the Idaho Attorney General. Jim mentions that some may also recall that Elizabeth was both Miss Teen Idaho in 1998, and Miss Idaho U.S.A. in 2001.
There is a third long article by Jan Max Stevenson in the Idaho Statesman on August 19, 2021 titled Born in Boise, raised in Idaho, this ‘prolific’ woman is Biden’s solicitor general pick. It adds that she graduated from Harvard Law School. That article begins by describing how when Elizabeth was 12 and attending public school in Idaho City she spent her afternoons attending classes at Boise State University. She graduated from Boise High School in 1998, and then from Emory University in Atlanta. One of her high school friends, Jordan Heller, said she was adept at any number of subjects, a talented writer, and quite prolific.
An image of the US Supreme Court came from Ktjetil Ree at Wikimedia Commons.
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