Who Else Needs to Be ‘Learned in the Law’?
In a post about Solicitor General-designate Elena Kagan, we invoked the oft-repeated chestnut that the solicitor general is the only position whose occupant is required by statute to be "learned in the law." Well, not quite. A careful reader alerted us to 2 U.S.C. Sec. 288(a)(2), which states that the counsel and deputy counsel of the U.S. Senate also "shall be learned in the law." But did former Solicitor General Seth Waxman once make the same mistake we did?
