Donald Verrilli Jr. Quotes About Decisions

• When we're not a party, we sometimes file as amicus, as friend of the court, 25, 30 times a term, sometimes more. And in each of those cases, we've got to decide what position the government's going to take. And that is the solicitor general's job to make that decision.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Jobs, Party, Government

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

• There was only really one time that I had a substantive interaction with the president [Barak Obama] directly, and that was in 2013 when we were deciding whether to file a brief in the first gay marriage case, the Perry against Hollingsworth case. That was a weighty decision about whether the United States government was going to come in and say that heightened scrutiny ought to apply and some state bans on same-sex marriage ought to be unconstitutional. And that was the one time in my tenure where I thought I ought not make this decision without talking to the president.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Sex, Gay, Government

  Source: www.slate.com

• In the past, presidents had been consulted about those kinds of decisions by SGs, and I thought it was the right thing to do.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Past, Decision, President

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

• El hecho de tener una política de tal consecuencia que afecta directamente a millones de personas y de tener una cuestión legal de gran consecuencia sobre el alcance de la autoridad del presidente para actuar en la aplicación de las leyes de inmigración de esta manera y de tener una decisión de una sola línea del tribunal afirmando por un tribunal igualmente dividido, es una consecuencia inevitable de dónde estamos.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Law, People, Decision

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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