Cal SG at SCOTUS

The NLJ's Supreme Court Brief reports:

California's SG, Former Souter Clerk, Would Make High Court Debut in DACA CasesCalifornia’s top state appellate lawyer is poised to make his U.S. Supreme Court debut in just a few weeks in support of shielding hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants from deportation under the Obama-era program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

Solicitor General Michael Mongan is requesting to split 40 minutes with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Theodore Olson, who would argue for certain individual DACA recipients. Mongan would represent the interests of 20 states—including California, New York, Connecticut, Delaware and Pennsylvania—that are arguing against the Trump administration’s efforts to rescind the program.

Mongan would make his rookie appearance before the high court in one of the new term’s most visible cases, one that crystalizes the ongoing fight between the White House and Democrats over immigration and citizenship. But he is no stranger to the nation’s biggest legal stages.

Named California’s solicitor general just a little over two months ago, Mongan argued for the state in defense of DACA before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in May 2018. Six months later, the Ninth Circuit upheld a lower court’s injunction blocking the Trump administration’s attempted rollback of DACA, which temporarily exempts certain undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children from deportation.

Mogan is a former clerk to now-retired Justice David Souter and to Judge Merrick Garland on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He succeeded Edward DuMont, the former Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr partner, as the California solicitor.

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