Kellyanne Conway's husband could be the lawyer tapped to argue President Donald Trump's travel ban if it goes to the Supreme Court.

A top contender for solicitor general says he doesn't want the job - and George Conway could be next in line.

The United States Solicitor General is the government lawyer who argues on behalf of the administration before the high court.

Kellaynne Conway's husband could be the lawyer tapped to argue President Donald Trump's travel ban if it goes to the Supreme Court. A top contender for solicitor general says he doesn't want the job - and George Conway (right) could be next in line

Trump has an acting solicitor general overseeing the case. But he's yet to make a permanent appointment to the position, and the legal challenges to his executive order restricting travel to the U.S. from seven nations continues to mount.

Chuck Cooper, an inside-the-Beltway lawyer who helped prepare President Donald Trump's attorney general for his confirmation confrontation in the Senate, was considered a frontrunner for the position.

Cooper says he's withdrawing from consideration after watching Democrats viciously attack Jeff Sessions.

Chuck Cooper was considered a frontrunner for the position. Cooper says he's withdrawing from consideration after watching Democrats try to destroy Attorney General Jeff Sessions' reputation

'After witnessing the treatment that my friend Jeff Sessions, a decent and honorable man who bears only good will and good cheer to everyone he meets, had to endure at the hands of a partisan opposition that will say anything and do anything to advance their political interests, I am unwilling to subject myself, my family, and my friends to such a process,' he told Politico.

CNN says that Conway, Williams & Connolly partner Kannon Shanmugam and Christopher Landau, a partner at Kirland & Ellis and a former clerk to Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, are being looked at for the post.

Solicitor general is a Senate confirmed position. Conway would have to file financial disclosure forms and would be picked apart in the Senate.

No Trump nominee has failed to meet the bar, so far - Sessions made it through earlier this week. Democrats have been slow-walking many of Trump's nominees, however, making their confirmation processes as time consuming and burdensome as possible.

Conway is up for the challenge, his wife, a counselor to Trump, has said.

'George is a brilliant and accomplished lawyer who is willing to serve this president,' she said.

Kellyanne told Politico she's 'been quiet about the specific roles for him partly because of my role here.'

She was also waiting for Sessions to be confirmed, she said.

The solicitor general reports to the attorney general, and Sessions was said to favor Cooper, a longtime friend, for the position.

CNN says that Conway, Williams & Connolly partner Kannon Shanmugam (right) and Christopher Landau, a partner at Kirland & Ellis and a former clerk to Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas (center) are being looked at for the post

Conway made it clear he husband will take the position if its offered to him.

'He's willing to serve and I know that's a decision he's made. He would be the first Asian solicitor general, but he could also be a judge,' she said.

George Conway has only argued one case before the Supreme Court, in 2010, but the New York litigator has represented high-powered clients like Philip Morris and the National Football League.

He also wrote a Supreme Court brief in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit that led to President Bill Clinton's impeachment.

Conway is a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where he's worked at for nearly three decades. He's a 1987 graduate of Yale Law School in 1987 and clerked for federal appeals court Judge Ralph K. Winter, Jr.

Conway has already stood before the Supreme Court, arguing a case before it in 2010, Morrison v. National Australia Bank.

As his wife noted, George Conway is Filipino and would be the first Asian-American solicitor general if he's picked for and confirmed to the position.