WASHINGTON — No woman has appeared more often before the Supreme Court than Lisa Blatt, who will make her 50th argument this month. When Blatt joked that Justice Samuel Alito was being her “enforcer” with a friendly question in a case about a claimed retaliatory arrest that was argued last month, the justice said, “I’m not trying to be your …
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court wrapped up its arguments Wednesday with a case in which two of the three lawyers who took part are women. The percentages haven’t changed much in years, even as women now account for roughly half of all law school graduates and a record four of the nine Supreme Court justices. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the …