Texas Solicitor General Scott Keller might be taking multiple victory laps when he makes a July 6 scheduled appearance at a conservative Washington, D.C. think tank’s post-term symposium review of U.S. Supreme Court rulings.
If the high court rules in the Lone Star state’s favor in two pending cases, Keller will have achieved in his first 18 months as Texas’ top appellate lawyer a 4-1 record before the justices. The cases he has argued are about controversial legal questions, many of which have generated plenty of nationwide attention.
