Seth P. Waxman, one of the nation’s premier Supreme Court advocates, was 41st Solicitor General of the United States from 1997 – 2001. In 2009, Waxman argued alongside (then) Solicitor General and (current) Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan for the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) and Senator John McCain in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission. He has delivered over 75 oral arguments in the US Supreme Court and won landmark rulings in a number of cases including Boumediene v. Bush, McConnell v. FEC, and Roper v. Simmons.