Influence of the Solicitors General on the Supreme Court: 2011-2023

Authors

Maxwell Tobin, College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University

Document Type

Paper

Publication Date

5-1-2025

Disciplines

Law | Political Science

Advisor

Phil Kronebusch

Abstract

This project looks at the success rate of the OSG and how the data indicates that the government-more specifically between the executive and judicial- is not getting along. In doing so, this scholarship uses 337 Supreme Court cases where the OSG filed on these cases as an amicus brief. This project aims to fill the research gap since 2014. I argue the salience of this research is in 2020-2022 where SCOTUS has 3 new conservative members and the President during this time was leaning more progressive (even more than Obama). All of this works to explain the low success rate of the OSG- which is the data used to back up this argument.

Recommended Citation

Tobin, Maxwell, "Influence of the Solicitors General on the Supreme Court: 2011-2023" (2025). Celebrating Scholarship and Creativity Day (2018-). 277.
https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/ur_cscday/277