The National Constitution Center and the National Association of Attorneys General host a bipartisan conversation with Dan Schweitzer, director and chief counsel of the National Association of Attorneys General Center for Supreme Court Advocacy; Lindsay See, solicitor general of West Virginia; and Barbara Underwood, solicitor general of New York, exploring the history of the office of the solicitor general, the role of state solicitors in litigating cases before the Supreme Court, and some of the landmark cases they have litigated. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
This program is presented in partnership with the Center for Excellence in Governance at the National Association of Attorneys General.
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Dan Schweitzer is the director and chief counsel of the National Association of Attorneys General’s Center for Supreme Court Advocacy. Since joining NAAG, his primary role has been to assist state appellate litigators who appear before the U.S. Supreme Court by organizing moot courts, editing state briefs, and providing strategic and technical assistance to state attorney general offices.
Lindsay See is the solicitor general of West Virginia. She has argued twice before the Supreme Court, including on behalf of a coalition of states in West Virginia v. EPA, and routinely appears before the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia and the Fourth Circuit, as well as other state and federal courts.
Barbara Underwood is the solicitor general of New York. She has argued 22 cases before the Supreme Court, including most recently New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen. Solicitor General Underwood has also served as the first female acting solicitor general of the United States and the first female attorney general of the state of New York, among many other roles.
Jeffrey Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to educating the public about the U.S. Constitution. Rosen is also professor of law at The George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic.
Additional Resources
- Lydia Wheeler,State Solicitors General to Have Big Week at US Supreme Court, Bloomberg Law
- New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen (2022)
- New York v. New Jersey
- West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (2022)
- National Constitution Center, "Domestic Violence Laws and Gun Rights," We the People podcast
- Trump v. New York (2020)
- Department of Commerice v. New York (2019)
- Dawson v. Steager (2018)
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