But he does not flip-flopping a political candidate; He is a lawyer. In this way, the changes in his job.
Clement will play a major role in the politically charged the three with the highest cases of Republican Guard led the States object to the Obama administration policies or federal law, health care, immigration, and the display of political boundaries.
The majority of the 45-year-old law school, buddy, President Barack Obama is trying to sink Obama's health care overhaul.
Not long ago, on a regular basis, to stand before the justices, and Clement to defend even the most aggressive uses of federal power, in his case, without written notes and parrying questions about the easy banter.
He claimed the Bush administration policy, detaining suspected terrorists and the serious medical procedure opponents call "partial birth Abortion", the Federal law on the McCain-Feingold law designed to limit the money policy and the use of the medical purposes of Federal marijuana prohibition of influence.
Clement was President George w. Bush senior Supreme Court lawyer, solicitor general in the last Government, his fitness will be continued. He was a law clerk for Justice Antonin Scalia and John Ashcroft, British Columbia, and then when the Senator and attorney general Ashcroft had worked.
If the Republican Guard to win the White House, expect to find among the top the lists of candidates, the highest possible Clement, said Curt Levey, the conservative Council. "It is the will of the Republican President, is it not to him in their short list."
His recent Run of cases does not hurt his chances.
"There is no doubt that Paul has become the leader in the opinion of the Advocate General, the majority of the deeply conservative causes. David Frederick, the Supreme Court lawyer who represents the often consumers have reputation, he has worked very hard to earn, "said.
Clement is scheduled according to the claims of seven cases in the high court that the term around 10% of the total quantity, and a huge picture of a private practice lawyer. The Supreme Court lawyer Thomas Goldstein on the last event to jokingly Clement "is the difference between arguing always at the highest level in this period of time, or nearly so."
Of these, the last is the defense of the Arizona immigration law: the challenge from the White House.
He preparoitujen already, at least in part, the Court threw out the profit when the interim Texas election maps-that's the federal judges and the Republicans Clement represented.
But the centerpiece of the work, and the high court of Clement-the term is the election year legislative control, the purpose of which is to extend health care coverage to more than 30 million people. Clement to run more than one lawyer in the middle of the argument in the opposition to the law with the customers.
Florida and 25 other States representative Clement's central argument is that Congress went too far in requiring almost all American to buy insurance or pay a penalty.
"Has had a lot of crises in this country during the year, the economy, the other, which may have thought about the Congress that forcing individuals to buy a particular good or service has been the Government's actions in an effective way. But the Government has ever had, "he said.
Born and raised in Cedarburg Bryggare Clement was the year of Obama's Harvard Law School and worked in his Harvard law review. He is the youngest solicitor general, 38, at 115 years.
Clement's unassuming, buttoned-down picture contains his fondness alternative rock bands, he can see sometimes in Washington, a little tip for the 9: 30 Club. He lives in suburban Virginia with his wife and three sons.
He has maintained a heavy burden, despite the upheaval in the new dress, which took him to the 800-lawyer firm King & Spalding, a small Bancroft LLC. Atlanta-based King & Spalding spent a reported $ 5 million, maybe after he left Government to Clement in 2008. Clement did not confirm the figure, but he does not deny it.
Clement deep pocketed customers attracted easily, including the NFL owners in the event of a dispute over the players.
But his representation of the House Republicans in support of the Defense of Marriage Act prompt internal battle. The Obama administration no longer defends the 1996 law, defined as marriage between a man and a woman, and the Union shall be prohibited to grant same-sex couples the benefits to the Government.
King & Spalding will ultimately withdrew from the case, leaving Clement to stop his clients or the firm's uncomfortable position. He chose the latter, which drew some criticism in the case of a gay rights groups, but the lawyers praise political spectrum, including Elena Kagan, Obama's nominee for President to the highest level.
Georgetown University last year, Kagan spoke of Clement's "integrity, professionalism and honor" and understand the critics, "said Clement's abuse of the traditions and law ethics."
Clement, in fact, says, the experience of a visit to the degrees of his Show that he did not choose the fear of the customers, taking unpopular causes. "It feels really uninteresting legal practice, with the formula," he said.
And his ties to the Republicans, though Clement claims that when he stands before the Court, "you have to really buy into understanding that the activities carried out on behalf of the client. They have their own positions. "
He finds that he has been the liberal side, sometimes arguing, as the California prison facility inmates to seek better medical health care, mental health services, and for higher fees for lawyers, who won the Georgia changes contribute to the care program.
Still, when he left the King and Spalding, he, along with many of his customers have ended at the Bancroft, Harvard Law classmate Viet Dinh. 13-the former Bush administration lawyer, business is heavy, the officials, including the Dinh and the officers of the Supreme Court John Roberts law.
Editor's note _ is part of a weeklong package of stories, a preview of the Supreme Court for the President Barack Obama health care overhaul law
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