Elizabeth Barchas Prelogar Quotes

There isn’t a trade off between being an aggressive and successful advocate for your clients’ positions and treating others with respect.

Applicant has never represented in any of his multiple legal filings in multiple courts that he in fact declassified any documents — much less supported such a representation with competent evidence

I don't think it's ever too late for this Court to give the statute its proper construction when you actually look at its text, context, and history.

We’re competitive we like to win but we don’t compete against each other. It’s been the perfect culture to try to build a Supreme Court and appellate practice.

This is not about reducing enforcement of the immigration laws, it's about prioritizing limited resources to say go after Person A instead of Person B

Make no mistake, it is impossible for DHS to comply with each and every ‘shall’ in the INA as truly a judicially enforceable duty, we wouldn’t have the resources or ability to go after those individuals who are threats to public safety, national security and border security

Federal government has to prioritize its efforts because it does not have the resources to pursue the 11 million undocumented "noncitizens" in the country.

This court is going to hear from 27 advocates in this sitting of the oral argument calendar and two are women even though women today are 50 percent or more of law school graduates and I think it would be reasonable for a woman to look at that and wonder, is that a path that’s open to me, to be a Supreme Court advocate

Learn your cases and your clients inside and out so that you have the whole picture in mind when crafting arguments.

Federal courts should not be transformed into open forums for each and every policy dispute between the states and the national government

Are private clients willing to hire women to argue their Supreme Court cases? When there’s that kind of gross disparity in representation, it can matter and it’s common sense