This week we'll be joined for the first 20 minutes on zoom by Caroline VanZile, the DC Solicitor General (SG). After graduating from Yale, she clerked for Judge Boasberg, then Judge Kavanaugh, and Justice Kennedy, and was an associate at Skadden before turning to public service. Come prepared with questions.

State AGs have a complex relationship with the federal government, including the President, the U.S. Department of Justice, local U.S. Attorneys, and other federal agencies. Away from the headlines, in most cases, attorneys general cooperate with federal agencies to carry out federal policy, but in some cases and in some states, attorneys general attempt to either challenge or prompt federal action. 

The differing strains of this relationship do not necessarily divide on the usual partisan axis. Over the years, the relationship has been characterized by cooperation, disinterest, preemption, or outright hostility, some times even within the same Administration.