Latest Donald Verrilli Jr. Quotes from Interviews

• One thing I've experienced and I feel really grateful for now that I'm on my way out is that I felt that the justices gave that back to me. I really did. You know, of course, you can have some sharp exchanges. That's the nature of the thing, and that's fine. But really in the main I felt like the tone from them was, "Yeah. We may not agree with you, but we're going to have a discussion about this." And it did.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Grateful, Justice, May

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

• Me siento tan bendecido por haber tenido la oportunidad de hacer este trabajo [ Procurador General de EE.UU.] en este momento de nuestra historia. Ha sido algo increíble.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Jobs, Blessed, Chance

  Fuente: www.slate.com

• After a couple of years, I realized that this was actually true, that his gave me the ability to go to a different place and, hopefully, have a stronger impact.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Couple, Impact, Years

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

• I'm arguing for progressive positions on behalf of a progressive administration in front of a court who, before Justice [Antonin] Scalia's death, had a conservative majority that was quite conservative, frankly.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Justice, Majority, Administration

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

• My job was always to pull a vote over from somebody who was likely to be at least at the outset disinclined to agree with me on some things or at least disinclined to agree with the policy that I was defending.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Jobs, Vote, Policy

  "Farewell to the General". Interview 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.

• I'm representing the United States. And I'm representing the United States, and my office is representing the United States day after day in front of the court. And I think it's the right thing to do, to carry that out with some dignity and some respect for the process and respect for the institution. And so that led me to just, you know, move the dial a little bit in the direction of calmness.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Moving, Thinking, Office

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

• It's the spring of 2012, that the [Barak] Obama administration would be embracing the argument that the Affordable Care Act was a tax, and that was going to, itself, be a political albatross.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Spring, Political, Would Be

  Fuente: www.slate.com

• People have got to make their best calls in what they think about a case when they're covering it. But I do think the lesson there, and I guess stating the obvious, that oral argument can as often send a false signal as an accurate signal about where the thing is going.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Thinking, People, Covering

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

• I do think that the instant nature of the reaction now, I do think it has an effect, that people's instant reactions to things are valid and valuable. But they're not always right, and they're not always capturing the full reality.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Realidad, Pensamiento, Gente

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

• There was this point about, you know, the basic point there as well - this statute treats some parts of the country different from others, and what's the justification for that? Well, you know, I had eight million things to say about that, but he put it in such a sharp, excruciating way that it was just very hard to handle it effectively.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Country, Eight, Different

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

• Creo que las impresiones de todos se formaron en los primeros minutos. Y me pareció que, en la última parte del debate, volví a meterme en él. Pero las impresiones de todos se formaron al principio. Y totalmente aparte de mí y si yo era bueno o malo, ya sabes, había un montón de preguntas hostiles.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Thinking, Way, Firsts

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

• Sometimes one of the justices, because they're, you know, they're brilliant lawyers themselves, can put the question in a particular way so that, even if you've prepared to talk about the topic, the question is put in such an excruciatingly difficult way that there's just no good way to handle it.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Justice, Way, Topics

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

• Justice [Sonia]Sotomayor said, "Let's talk - you want to talk about the tax power."And I got like a 10-minute run on the tax power. And, boy, was I glad I did because I was able to get across this idea that, yes, this is a narrower ground on which you can affirm it. And I think everybody agrees. I think even the dissenting justices ultimately in the case agreed that, if Congress had expressly called it a tax, it would be indisputably constitutional.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Running, Boys, Thinking

  Fuente: www.slate.com

• The moot court process in our office when we get ready, we - everybody, including the SG, does two moot courts for each argument. And they are phenomenal, and they predict 90 percent of the questions that I get asked, at least 90 percent.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Two, Office, Doe

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

• The president [Barak Obama] had been asked some questions by George Stephanopoulos on a news show about whether it was a tax. And he had given an answer that you might read as him saying it wasn't a tax. I think what he said was, "It isn't a tax increase on all Americans."

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Thinking, President, News

  Fuente: www.slate.com

• Brett Kavanaugh is a brilliant, brilliant judge and one of the most-distinguished conservative jurists in the country.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Country, Judging, Conservative

  Fuente: www.slate.com

• I don't think this is a situation where you can say that Congress was avoiding any mention of the tax power. It'd be one thing if Congress explicitly disavowed an exercise of the tax power. But given that it hasn't done so, it seems to me that it's - not only is it fair to read this as an exercise of the tax power, but this court has got an obligation to construe it as an exercise of the tax power if it can be upheld on that basis.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Exercise, Thinking, Done

  Fuente: www.slate.com

• Very quickly the lawyers in the Justice Department pulled together a set of recommendations about how we ought to defend the law as a constitutional matter. And it was the lawyers in the Justice Department who thought that it was important to include the tax power argument as part of it.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Law, Justice, Important

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

• Watch what happens on Twitter. One thing leads to another very quickly. And in an ironic sense, even though it's such a democratic form of communication, there's a funny way in which it leads to a hardening of a conventional wisdom much more quickly than might happen if you were reflecting on it a little more.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Communication, Ironic, Watches

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

• If people can live openly and be equal, then you have to have a pretty strong reason to say they can't get married.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Strong, People, Married

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

• There was a huge movement that led up to [gay marriage legilization], and I played a small role in the great scheme of things. But it was really a privilege to get to do it.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Gay, Roles, Movement

  Fuente: www.slate.com

• What we once thought of as necessary and proper reasons for ostracizing and marginalizing gay people, we now understand do not justify that kind of oppression.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Gay, People, Kind

  Fuente: www.slate.com

• I did think Justice [Antony] Kennedy's opinion on Lawrence was critical to that because it really, what Lawrence in one sense was, of course, about consensual sex being something that the government can't regulate. But really in a more fundamental sense, what it was saying, "Look. Gay people are normal people, and they get to live normal lives. They're not criminals by virtue of the fact of being gay."

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Sexo, Gay, Pensamiento

  Fuente: 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.

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