Oklahoma Solicitor General Mithun Mansinghani was planning to bring his parents to Washington on April 21 to see him argue before the U.S. Supreme Court.

But that was before his case McGirt v. Oklahoma, among others, was postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, Mansinghani's parents will listen from home in Texas while he argues in the case May 11 from his office in Oklahoma City. The high court on April 13 reinstated 10 oral arguments, including Mansinghani's, to the docket to be heard telephonically and made public.

It's a brand-new ballgame in many ways for Mansinghani, 32, a Harvard Law School grad and former associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher from 2012 to 2015. He then entered public service as Oklahoma's deputy solicitor general for two years. Mansinghani was promoted to state solicitor general in 2017. "I decided that a state SG's office was where I could probably contribute the most," Mansinghani said in an interview. He has been "second-chair" for two Supreme Court cases, but the McGirt case will be his first high court oral argument.