Attorney General Elizabeth Preloger is arguing an abortion-related case for the fourth time since becoming the federal government’s top Supreme Court advocate.
The debate, heard Wednesday in the high court, is over whether federal orders against hospitals override states’ strict abortion bans in medical emergencies. It shows how the legal battle over abortion rights did not end even after the above abortion rights were abolished.
In the first two abortion-related cases Ms. Preloger argued, conservative majorities rejected her argument that abortion rights should be protected.
But she has also scored victories on other issues where the Biden administration is seemingly at odds with the court’s conservative leanings, such as immigration and voting rights battles.
Born in 1980, Mr. Preloger is himself a former Supreme Court clerk, having worked for both the late Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan. Her Senate vote of 53-36 confirmed her as attorney general, making Ms. Preloger the second woman ever to hold the position, following Ms. Kagan, who was attorney general during the Obama administration.
A native of Idaho, Preroger attended Emory University and then Harvard Law School. She also clerked for her current boss, Attorney General Merrick Garland, when he was a judge on the D.C. Circuit Court before taking the Supreme Court clerkship. She continued to litigate private companies to the Supreme Court and worked on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigations.
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