Abstract
HE solicitor general is representative of executive branch before Supreme Court of United States. The office has four major functions: it screens losing cases involving United States for review to Supreme Court; it argues for or against review of cases not involving United States to Supreme Court; it argues cases for United States as direct party before Court; and it files amicus curiae briefs for litigants before Court when U.S. is not a direct party. This research note will examine solicitor general in its fourth stated role, amicus curiae. It will do so by updating and expanding upon works by Scigliano (1971), Puro (1971, 1981), O'Connor (1983) and Ulmer and Willison (1985). As O'Connor has noted, the solicitor general's amicus briefs have had a substantial effect on public policy, through without scrutiny given other arenas in political system (p. 264). Using population of amicus briefs filed from 1953 until 1982, this paper will describe and explain ideological direction of such briefs, factors affecting solicitors' success rates and votes of justices.
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