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1. How do law clerks and the solicitor general impact Supreme Court activity?

The Solicitor General, as the federal government's chief appellate lawyer, is the country's most prominent litigator. In recent years, the Solicitor General's involvement in the Supreme Court has changed in beneficial ways, both at the certiorari and merits stages. Before embarking on our discussion of these changes, we begin with a brief over-view of the Solicitor General's office, describing its responsibilities, ad-vantages, and extraordinary success in Supreme Court litigation.

Responsibilities

The Solicitor General is tasked with supervising all of the government's appellate litigation. In performing this responsibility, the office focuses on two essential functions: coordinating the government's legal strategy across the various agencies and departments, and step-ping in to represent the government in cases that have reached the Supreme Court level.

Consolidating all appellate litigation within the Solicitor General's office enables the federal government to coordinate and present a considered litigation strategy. This enables to look beyond the immediate concerns of individual agencies to the longer-term interests of the federal government (Margaret & Richard, 2010)2. What is the purpose of the verbal argument and private conferences? Are they similar in any way? How so?

The situation of enunciation of argumentative discourse characterizes by the difference of views or positions held by the protagonists of her, sending and receiving on the object-or theme of the speech that is controversial or credible to elicit divergent opinions. It is therefore, a situation, of encounter and dialogue between different viewpoints on the various objects that are the subject of human communication, which requires persons involved exposing the reasons given foundation and validate their position.

Its purpose is to convince or persuade reasonably affecting others about the validity of the position is held and elicit to influence the receptors to take certain attitudes or behavior change.

This expansive situation occurs multiple times ...