Edmund LaCour

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| name = Edmund LaCour

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| office = Solicitor General of Alabama

| governor = Kay Ivey

| term_start = May 3, 2019

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| predecessor = Andrew L. Brasher

| successor =

| birth_name = Edmund Gerald LaCour Jr.

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| party = Republican

| education = Birmingham-Southern College (BA)
Trinity College Dublin (MA)
Yale University (JD)

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Edmund Gerald LaCour Jr. (born 1985){{Cite web |last=Voruganti |first=Harsh |date=2020-08-24 |title=Edmund LaCour – Nominee to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama |url=https://vettingroom.org/2020/08/24/edmund-lacour/ |access-date=2020-09-09 |website=The Vetting Room |language=en}} is an American lawyer who has served as the Solicitor General of Alabama since May 3, 2019. He is a former nominee to be a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama.

Biography

LaCour received a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, from Birmingham-Southern College, a Master of Arts from Trinity College Dublin, and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School. After law school, LaCour served as a law clerk to Judge William H. Pryor Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He then worked at Baker Botts and Bancroft PLLC. He later became a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, before being appointed Solicitor General of Alabama in May 2019.{{cite web |url=https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/president-donald-j-trump-announces-judicial-nominee-6/ |title=President Donald J. Trump Announces Judicial Nominee |last= |first= |date=May 20, 2020 |access-date=May 20, 2020 |via=National Archives |work=whitehouse.gov |quote=}} {{PD-notice}} LaCour has argued cases before the Supreme Court of the United States, including Allen v. Milligan.{{Cite web|url=https://lawandcrime.com/supreme-court/liberal-justices-school-alabama-on-voting-rights-and-racial-discrimination-in-redistricting-case/|title=Liberal Justices School Alabama on Voting Rights and Racial Discrimination in Redistricting Case|date=October 4, 2022|website=Law & Crime|access-date=February 20, 2024}}

Failed nomination to district court under Trump

On May 20, 2020, President Trump announced his intent to nominate LaCour to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. On June 2, 2020, his nomination was sent to the Senate. President Trump nominated LaCour to the seat vacated by Judge Andrew L. Brasher, who was elevated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.[https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/ten-nominations-one-withdrawal-sent-senate-2/ "Ten Nominations and One Withdrawal Sent to the Senate", White House, June 2, 2020] One of Alabama's U.S. Senators, Doug Jones, refused to return a blue slip consenting to LaCour's confirmation.https://vettingroom.org/2020/08/24/edmund-lacour/ On January 3, 2021, his nomination was returned to the President under Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate.{{Cite web |date=2021-01-03 |title=PN1942 - Nomination of Edmund G. LaCour Jr. for The Judiciary, 116th Congress (2019–2020) |url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/116th-congress/1942 |access-date=2021-01-05 |website=www.congress.gov}} Later that same day, his renomination was sent to the Senate.[https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/thirty-nominations-sent-senate/ "Thirty Nominations Sent to the Senate", White House, January 3, 2021] On February 4, 2021, his nomination was withdrawn by President Joe Biden.{{cite news |last1=Bendery |first1=Jennifer |title=Biden Tosses Out Trump's Last-Minute Judicial Nominations |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-judicial-nominees_n_601c8e04c5b68e068fbcf08f |access-date=8 February 2021 |work=HuffPost |date=5 February 2021 |language=en}}