context1: On February 20, 2010 Noriega's <strong>lawyers</strong> filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court to block his extradition to France. This is after the court refused to hear his appeal during the previous month. Noriega's <strong>attorneys</strong> are hoping that the dissenting opinion in that ruling, written by Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia, will convince the full court to take up his case.
context2: Spencer A. Overton (born August 11, 1968) is an American <strong>lawyer</strong> and law professor of George Washington University Law School (on leave). He is a leading election law scholar. Overton is currently serving in the Obama Administration as the Principal Deputy Assistant <strong>Attorney</strong> General for the Office of Legal Policy in the U.S. Department of Justice.