Quotes by Donald Verrilli Jr.

Donald Verrilli Jr.

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.

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

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Judging

Gay and lesbian people are equal. They deserve equal protection of the laws, and they deserve it now.

Gay

Law

People

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.”

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I do a little bit of hand-holding on the big cases. You know, like health care, I’ll call over and say, “Don’t worry. We’ve got it under control. We have the best people working on it. We’re on schedule. Stay calm.” So, those kinds of things.

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I do think it’s true that a huge amount of the oversight that the White House engages in with respect to the Executive Branch is out of fear that somebody’s going to do something crazy and drive the president off a cliff.

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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.

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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.

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I feel so blessed to have had the chance to do this job [ U.S. Solicitor General] in this moment in our history. It’s been an incredible thing.

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I had a great deal of independence from the president and the White House during the entirety of my five years. And I’m not sure exactly what that is, but our friend, Walter Dellinger, has a theory about it, and I think he’s probably right. And the theory starts with the fact that I worked in the White House for a year and a half before coming over to the position of SG. And because of that, when I was nominated, there was some chatter out there that, “Oh. They’re putting a political hack in. This has never happened before.”

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Quotes by Donald Verrilli Jr.

Donald Verrilli Jr.

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.

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

Gay and lesbian people are equal. They deserve equal protection of the laws, and they deserve it now.

I do a little bit of hand-holding on the big cases. You know, like health care, I’ll call over and say, “Don’t worry. We’ve got it under control. We have the best people working on it. We’re on schedule. Stay calm.” So, those kinds of things.

I do think it’s true that a huge amount of the oversight that the White House engages in with respect to the Executive Branch is out of fear that somebody’s going to do something crazy and drive the president off a cliff.

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.

I feel so blessed to have had the chance to do this job [ U.S. Solicitor General] in this moment in our history. It’s been an incredible thing.

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