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...Solicitor General Wade McCree speaks up for the Government
...once-in-a-lifetime experience. But for a gentle-looking black lawyer named Wade H. McCree Jr. once a month is more like it. Dressed in striped trousers and traditional morning coat, McCree, 58, appears before the black-robed Justices as the lawyer for the U.S. Government. As Solicitor General, he is responsible for arguing and briefing the Government's position before the Supreme Court. He also decides what cases lost by the Government in lower court will be appealed...
...vetoed an appeal sought by the Defense Department to oppose a lower court's award of back pay and promotion in a racial discrimination case that he judged raised no new legal issues. For the most part, the final choice of cases is his alone; although the Solicitor General can be overruled by the Attorney General, he rarely is in practice...
Russel Higley, city solicitor, said he changed the language because Cambridge's license commissoner felt the age restrictions were not necessary. Higley added that such restrictions were better left for the council, rather than his office, to consider...
Litigation will continue, perhaps at " faster pace. "The Supreme Court has not stopped something," says former U.S. Solicitor General Robert Bork, who now teaches law at Yale. "It has started something." Probably more white males will be tempted to file suit against affirmative-action programs on the grounds that they are really hidden quota systems...