U.S. Solicitor General to Quit Job for Yale Post
WASHINGTON — U.S. Solicitor General Drew S. Days III, the Clinton administration’s top courtroom lawyer, is planning to leave his post this summer to return to the Yale Law School, The Times learned Wednesday.
A soft-spoken former civil rights attorney, Days has had a rough tenure representing the government before the conservative-leaning Supreme Court.
In 1993, he drew the ire of conservative activists when he dropped the child pornography prosecution of a Pennsylvania man and said that the law did not ban the sale of salacious videos of scantily clad young girls.
President Clinton was forced to step in and end the flap by reversing Days’ decision.
Liberals also complained when Days refused to support the activists who are challenging a Colorado anti-gay initiative before the Supreme Court.
But a Justice Department official said the solicitor general is stepping down simply because he needs to return to Yale this fall to keep his tenured professorship.
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